Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGreat is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod is always the last resource.
ALEXANDRE DUMASNo, 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
ALEXANDRE DUMASTrue love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhen a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThat is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
ALEXANDRE DUMASJoy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMASOh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWithout reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMoral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious 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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