Iconic Quotes and Famous Lines

From The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The novel's most quoted lines articulate its philosophy of suffering, patience, and the relativity of human emotion.
Chapter 117

'Wait and hope' — the closing maxim.

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Chapter 117
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.
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Chapter 48
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.
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Chapter 17

Faria: 'When you have reached the point you wish to attain, draw your own conclusions.'

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