Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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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.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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