Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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Wait and hope!
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Tell 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.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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