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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASNo, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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