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

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

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

"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."

"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."

"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."