'Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may to learn is not to know there are the learners and the learned. 'Two years!' exclaimed Dantes 'do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?' Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess.' 'Alas, my boy,' said he, ' human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping.' The abbe smiled. I can well that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. 'You must teach me a small part of what you know,' said Dantes, 'if only to prevent your growing weary of me.Still, from an artificial civilisation have originated wants, vices, and false tastes, which occasionally become so powerful as to stifle within us all good feelings, and ultimately to lead us into guilt and wickedness. There is … a clever maxim which bears upon what I was saying to you some little while ago, and that is, that unless wicked ideas take root in a naturally depraved mind, human nature, in a right and wholesome state, revolts at crime.'How strange,' continued the king, with some asperity 'the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say, 'A murder has been committed,' and especially so when they can add, 'And we are on the track of the guilty persons.''.Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.Drunk, if you like so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.'We are never quits with those who oblige us,' was Dantes' reply 'for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.'.See also: The Count of Monte Cristo, a 2002 film loosely based upon the book Quotes It provides the story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge. The Count of Monte Cristo is an 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas about the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason.

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