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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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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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