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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASFor there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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