Edmond Dantès

"I am not mad, I am simply tired of appearing so."

"Forgive yourself before you forgive others."

"The greatest victory is not to conquer others but to conquer oneself."

"We live for hope alone."

"I have suffered too much to be able to harbor hatred."

"To die is nothing, but to live without glory is to die every day."

"Become yourself or die."

"To forgive is divine, but vengeance is human."

"Nothing is impossible to him who will try."

"Time heals all wounds."

"The greatest prison is one of our own making."

"How did I heal the wounds that time and bitterness had inflicted? With time and patience."

"The greatest pleasure of revenge is to feel that your enemy suffers."

"Well, then, I am neither God nor an angel, but simply a man who has suffered greatly."

"I have been sometimes mad, but never unwise."

"I waited and suffered as a sailor at the mercy of the waves."

"Forgive everyone everything."

"I have suffered; I have learned; I have changed."

"Prison teaches a man the value of freedom more than any philosopher."

"I will wait for love, but I will not chase after it."

"A true friend is worth more than all the treasure in the world."

"I have learned that life is not about what happens to you, but how you respond."

"I sought revenge, but I found something far more valuable—my humanity."

"A man who has nothing to lose is the most dangerous."

"Suffering has taught me more than success ever could."

"I am the instrument of God's justice."

"A man can endure any suffering if he has hope."

"I have learned to read the human heart like an open book."

"I am not what I was; I am what I have become."

"Hope is the last thing to abandon us in darkness."