Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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In 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.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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