He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASEveryone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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