Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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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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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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