True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOne’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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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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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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