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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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Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
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"Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!"
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
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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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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection
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I confess that nothing frightens me more than the appearance of mushrooms on the table, especially in a small provincial town.
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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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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you—' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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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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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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I fancy that a man was not intended to be so easily made happy. Happiness resembles those palaces of the enchanted isles whose doors were guarded by dragons—you must fight in order to be victorious.
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There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
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"We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude."
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
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A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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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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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
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Born:
July 28, 1802
Died:
December 5, 1870
(aged 68)
Bio:
Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Known for:
The Three Musketeers (1844)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)
Twenty Years After (1845)
The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later (1850)
The Black Tulip (1850)
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