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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is only the dead who do not return.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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