And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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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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It 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.
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Wait and hope!
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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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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