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 DUMASEdmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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