We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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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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