If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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God is always the last resource.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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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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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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