I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Wait and hope!
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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