Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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Wait and hope!
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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