True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMASFor all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Wait and hope!
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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God is always the last resource.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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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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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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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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