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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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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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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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God is always the last resource.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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