We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
ALEXANDRE DUMASI am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Wait and hope!
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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