The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOne’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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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.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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