We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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