To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAre there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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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 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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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