If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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