Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAh, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I am a count, not a saint.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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