Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBesides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
ALEXANDRE DUMASNo, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhat a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhen a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLove is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
ALEXANDRE DUMASNever fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
ALEXANDRE DUMASEveryone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMoral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLearning 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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