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.
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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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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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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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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