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“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”

Alexandre Dumas

Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois

“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. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117 <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846) <br class="br">Context: Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom... 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. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

“All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.”

Alexandre Dumas

“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.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“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.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“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.”

Alexandre Dumas

“All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Also: Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,— &quot;Wait and hope&quot;. <br class="br"> Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117 <br class="br">Variant: All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope <br class="br">Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God.”

Alexandre Dumas book Twenty Years After

Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) (1845)
Context: Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.

“Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 17 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_17 <br class="br">The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846) <br class="br">Context: &quot;You must teach me a small part of what you know,&quot; said Dantes, &quot;if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can well believe] that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute [[solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping.&quot; The abbe smiled. &quot;Alas, my boy,&quot; said he, &quot;human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess.&quot;<br>&quot;Two years!&quot; exclaimed Dantes; &quot;do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?&quot;<br>&quot;Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.&quot;

“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.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo