Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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A 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.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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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