Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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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.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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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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