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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASA person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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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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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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