Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Wait and hope!
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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It 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.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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