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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThrough 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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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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Wait and hope!
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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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