The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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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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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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