The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhen a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Wait and hope!
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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.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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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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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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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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