He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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