It 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYouth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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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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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Wait and hope!
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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