“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Author detail
A French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world. Many of his novels, including The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After, and The Vicomte de Bragelonne were serialized. He also wrote plays and magazine articles and was a prolific correspondent. (From Wikipedia.)
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“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
“Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.”
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“So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.”
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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words-wait and hope.”
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“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be con...”
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“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.”
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“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires 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.”
“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.”
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a...”
“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the suc...”
“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”
“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”
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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
“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.”
“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”
“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society w...”