Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOn what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Wait and hope!
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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