There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhat a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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 tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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