So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMASRemember that what has once been done may be done again.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Without 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.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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