Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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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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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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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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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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