Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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