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- “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.
- “All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope” ― Alexandre Dumas, 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.
- “It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.
#2: “Oh, God,” said Monte Cristo, “your vengeance may sometimes be slow in coming, but I think that then it is all the more complete.” #3: Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
Explanation of the famous quotes in The Count of Monte Cristo, including all important speeches, comments, quotations, and monologues.
- “Haste is a poor counselor.” — The Count of Monte Cristo. This quote suggests that making decisions too quickly without weighing all the possible consequences leads often leads to making mistakes and outcomes that could harm us.
- “In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”
- “I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.”
- “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.”
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Copy text. “It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”. ― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Count of Monte Cristo. Copy text. “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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The beauty of the quotes in ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ bears mentioning.The dialogue between characters reveals profound truths about human life, and the monologues of Edmond Dantes are the wise sayings of one who has experienced much in life.
