So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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I 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.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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