The Count of Monte Cristo quotes
7 quotes from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
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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.’
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.
I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
The sea is the cemetery of the Château d’If.
Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity,—they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Edmond, you will not kill my son!
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