If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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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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No, 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.
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