It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Alexandre Dumas
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
selfishness alexandre-dumas passions
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
guns
To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable richs that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.
wealth influence materialism
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
unity division
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
money people business
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
life men
Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.
accident gentlemen life
Weep, said Athos, weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!
life
We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply; for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
money
Eh! Sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
fate steel truth
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
conceit work art
You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.
change thetimes time
order death
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
man
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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