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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"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
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"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."
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"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
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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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