He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOn what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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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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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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