In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
ALEXANDRE DUMASTrue love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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 wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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