He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASA person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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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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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 like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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