There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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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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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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God is always the last resource.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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