Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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