Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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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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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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