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Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
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.
Alexandre Dumas: Quotes about happiness
Alexandre Dumas was French writer and dramatist, father of the homonym writer and dramatist. Explore interesting quotes on happiness.“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
Source: The Black Tulip
Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Variant: 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.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo