It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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