I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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We 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.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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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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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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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Wait and hope!
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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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God is always the last resource.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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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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