No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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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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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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God is always the last resource.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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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