Alexandre Dumas Short Quotes

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

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He whose game is the eagle takes no heed of the sparrow.

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I'd rather have ten soldiers to guard than a single scholar.

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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

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All human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and Hope.

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A husband is always a sensible man: he never thinks of marrying.

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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting deity.

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Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.

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

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

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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

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(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

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

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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

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

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It is with the mind that we amuse ourselves, but with the heart we never weary.

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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

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It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.

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I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings.

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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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Among all animals, from man to the dog, the heart of a mother is always a sublime thing.

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The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three.

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I am orderly out of spirit of idleness, to save myself the trouble of looking after things.

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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

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