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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOrder is the key to all problems.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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