Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Capricious 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.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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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 have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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