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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLove is the most selfish of all the passions.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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 is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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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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