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.
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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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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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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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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