More quotes by Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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"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."
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"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
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"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
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