Alexandre Dumas The Count Of Monte Cristo Quotes

#1. I am selfish - you have already said so - and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle Locations 11677-11678).

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#2. There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe.

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#3. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Jim Rohn

#4. we have both blood in our veins which we wish to shed - that is our mutual guaranty. Tell the viscount so, and that to-morrow, before ten o'clock, I shall see what color his is.

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#5. One man on the wall is worth ten beneath it.

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#6. I am - I am" - And his almost closed lips uttered a name so low that the count himself appeared afraid to hear it.

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#7. Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

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#8. Null Spot the Destroyer still had an imagination full of bad ideas and a pocket full of stupid to spend.

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#9. Poetry, romance, beauty, and love have no book value, but life has no value without them.

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#10. I never play, because I am not rich enough to afford to lose or poor enough to want to win.
Maximilien Morrel, The Count of Monte Cristo

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#11. God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

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#12. Wait, and hope (The Count of Monte Cristo)

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#13. My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.

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#14. How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!

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#15. Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

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#16. No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
The Count of Monte Cristo

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