Question

Count:________

A) "There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
B) He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness".

Answer 1

From Alexander Dumas' novel "The Count of Monte Cristo", these lines are said by Edmond Dantes in his letter to Maximilian.

Step-by-step explanation:

Alexander Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" tells the story of Edmond Dantes who was wrongly accused of murder and sent to prison. After many years, he escaped and retrieved a treasure his now deceased prison friend had told him to get. Then he bought the island of Monte Cristo along with the title of the Count of the land.

This quote is from the letter that Count Edmond Dantes wrote to Maximilian in which he wanted him to suffer to experience what real happiness is (Chapter 117). Dantes/ The Count believes that in order to know what true happiness is, one must first experience absolute pain, despair. This shift from ultimate despair to ultimate happiness does not only refer to Maximilian but also to himself. It is like the Christian belief of "blessings after suffering".