Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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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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