For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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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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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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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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Wait and hope!
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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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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