It 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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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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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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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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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