So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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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.
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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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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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