“I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“A man is always in a hurry to be happy.”

“I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange — ”

“You're not worried about anything, are you?" said Danglers. "It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you." "That's exactly what worries me," replied Dantes. "I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”