Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASRemember that what has once been done may be done again.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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