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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPhilosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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