It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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