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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTruly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Happiness is egotistical.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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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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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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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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