You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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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Wait and hope!
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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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God is always the last resource.
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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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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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