How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMASEvery 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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