Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." He believes in you.
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In prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Through 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.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.