Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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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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Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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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.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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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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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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.