Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sc... - Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."