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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYour life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Wait and hope!
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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