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 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 rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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