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Quotation from The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
“I shall have made one human being happy; and Heaven for that will hold me in better account than if I had made one man powerful; the former task is far more difficult.”
The Man in the Iron Mask, Chapter IX, The Tempter, trans. Anonymous translation
Aramis offers Philippe the alternative to the crown: a purse of a thousand pistoles and a hidden life in the marshes of Poitou.
Citation: "I shall have made one human being happy; and Heaven for that will hold me in better account than if I had made one man powerful; the former task is far more difficult." — Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask, Chapter IX, The Tempter, trans. Anonymous translation. (id the-man-in-the-iron-mask-q1)
Portrait: Alexander Dumas père (1802-1870), Nadar, Public domain.
