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 DUMASAll for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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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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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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