Nicola Sarandria - My Favourite books' quotes

THE COUNT OF MONTECRISTO.   ---    ALEXANDRE DUMAS

"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

SIDDHARTA     ---   HERMANN  HESSE

"Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it."

THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER STORIES    ---   Aleksandr Sergeevič Puškin

"Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others" 

THE DEVIL'S ELIXIR     ---    Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann 

"So true it is, that even the shortest step out of the immediate circle of one's best friends, is equal, in effect, to the remotest separation."