Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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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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