It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Capricious 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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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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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It 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.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Wait and hope!
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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