The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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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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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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