Happiness is egotistical.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTell 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.
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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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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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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.
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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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