That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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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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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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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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.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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