Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHappiness is egotistical.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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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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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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 heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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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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