I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHappiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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It 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.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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