Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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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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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 came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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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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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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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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