Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
ALEXANDRE DUMASA 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Wait and hope!
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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