Pain, thou art not an evil.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOften we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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God is always the last resource.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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