Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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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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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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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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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 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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.