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

"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."

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

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

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."