If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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