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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."
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"Men exist for the sake of one another."
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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."
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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."
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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"Let no such man be trusted."
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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."
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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."
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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."
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"Go," said the count deliberately, "go, dear friend, but promise me, if you meet with any obstacle to remember that I have some power in this world; that I am happy to use that power in the behalf of those I love; and that I love you, Morrel.""I will remember it," said the young man, "as selfish children recollect their parents when they want their aid. When I need your assistance, and the moment may come, I will come to you, count."
Friendship

"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works."
Love

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
Love

"We said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows."
Romance

"Sometimes salvation is found in agony."
Faith

"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."
Communication

"Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations."
Solitude

"No, monsieur, returned Monte Cristo "upon the simple condition that they should respect myself and my friends. Perhaps what I am about to say may seem strange to you, who are socialists, and vaunt humanity and your duty to your neighbor, but I never seek to protect a society which does not protect me, and which I will even say, generally occupies itself about me only to injure me; and thus by giving them a low place in my esteem, and preserving a neutrality towards them, it is society and my neighbor who are indebted to me."
Ethics

"You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones."
Time

"But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of the passion."
Romance
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