Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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 is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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