True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe’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
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from 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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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