It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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