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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTruly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Wait and hope!
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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It 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.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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