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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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Wait and hope!
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Tell 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.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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