There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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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God is always the last resource.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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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.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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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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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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