There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod is always the last resource.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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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.
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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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