How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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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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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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