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.
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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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Wait and hope!
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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 God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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