One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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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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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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