So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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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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