The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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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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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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