Alexandre Dumas Quotes

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I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

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As a general rule... people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

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All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

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All for one, one for all, that is our motto.

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Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.

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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!

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You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

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We'll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we'll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven't seen her for some time

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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

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When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man!

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Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom... 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. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.

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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

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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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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

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„.it is one of the axioms of mathematics that the container must be greater than the contained.

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Never forget that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words—"Wait and hope."

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The physician has a sacred mission on earth; and to fulfill it he begins at the source of life, and goes down to the mysterious darkness of the tomb.

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