I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
ALEXANDRE DUMASEdmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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