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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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