Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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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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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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