Alexandre Dumas, fils Quotes

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Poverty destroys pride. It is difficult for an empty bag to stand upright.

Alexandre Dumas, fils
Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

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Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.

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What distresses me is to see that human genius has limits and human stupidity none.

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We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down.

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It is possible to become a painter, a sculptor, or a musician by study, but not a dramatic poet; a man is so either at once or never, as he is blonde or brown, and cannot help it.

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We must love, no matter whom, no matter what, no matter how, provided only we do love.

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Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

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Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.

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The child is small, and he includes the man; the brain is narrow, and it harbours thought; the eye is but a point, and it covers leagues

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Men and women go to the theater only to hear of love, and to take part in the pains or in the joys that it has caused. All the other interests of humanity remain at the door.

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Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master.

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It is easier to be good for everybody, than to be good for somebody.

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Business? Why, it's very simple: business is other people's money.

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That world [Demimonde] begins where the lawful wife finishes; it finishes where the venal wife begins. It is divided from the world of honest women by the public scandal it provokes; it is divided from the world of courtesans by money.

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Love without esteem can not reach far, nor rise very high: it is an angel with but one wing.

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We must have done something very wicked before we were born, or else we must be going to be very happy indeed when we are dead, for God to let this life have all the tortures of expiation and all the sorrows of an ordeal.

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