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Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.
— Alexandre Dumas
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
— Alexandre Dumas
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
— Alexandre Dumas
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
— Alexandre Dumas
Oh, the wickedness of man is very great," said Villefort, "since it surpasses the goodness of God.
— Alexandre Dumas
Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man,
— Alexandre Dumas
Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
— Alexandre Dumas
We have our clothes, some more splendid than others, - this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin;
— Alexandre Dumas
Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?
— Alexandre Dumas
We are always in a hurry to be happy ... ; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
— Alexandre Dumas
God will give me justice
— Alexandre Dumas
Pain, thou art not an evil
— Alexandre Dumas
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
— Alexandre Dumas
Be kind, aim for my heart.
— Alexandre Dumas
Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn't keep you warm at night, life's too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side
— Alexandre Dumas
I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.
— Alexandre Dumas
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
— Alexandre Dumas
There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.
— Alexandre Dumas
Paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding.
— Alexandre Dumas
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.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
it cost me more, but I have nothing to fear.
— Alexandre Dumas
Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
— Alexandre Dumas
Paid the last debt of nature
— Alexandre Dumas
It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.
— Alexandre Dumas
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
— Alexandre Dumas
Patience is not my dominant virtue. D'Artagnan — Alexandre Dumas
Is there anything else I can assist you in discovering, besides the villany of your friends?
— Alexandre Dumas
No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being inclined to be a dreamer.
— Alexandre Dumas
What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.
— Alexandre Dumas
Come, let us be bored together
— Alexandre Dumas
Armed to the teeth?" "He had not even a knitting-needle.
— Alexandre Dumas
But he laughed as the English do at the end of his teeth.
— Alexandre Dumas
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
— Alexandre Dumas
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
— Alexandre Dumas
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
— Alexandre Dumas
Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you.
— Alexandre Dumas
As I look at it, a millionth part of a railway is worth fully as much as an acre of waste land on the banks of the Ohio.
— Alexandre Dumas
he had so long ceased to have any intercourse with the world, that he looked upon himself as dead. The
— Alexandre Dumas
You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.
— Alexandre Dumas
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
— Alexandre Dumas
Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.
— Alexandre Dumas
Do not value money for any more nor any less than its worth; it is a good servant but a bad master.
— Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
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— Alexandre Dumas
Then Monsieur is satisfied?" asked Planchet. "My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men!" "And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?
— Alexandre Dumas
Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others." "Never
— Alexandre Dumas
Hands are indispensable for priests of the inferior orders, when they bestow the benediction.
— Alexandre Dumas
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
And knitted his brow like a man disquieted. "The devil!" murmured he, between his teeth. "Can Treville have set this Gascon upon
— Alexandre Dumas
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
— Alexandre Dumas
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.
— Alexandre Dumas
Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.
— Alexandre Dumas
I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word.
— Alexandre Dumas
D'Artagnan looked for some tapestry behind which he might hide himself, and felt an immense inclination to crawl under the table.
— Alexandre Dumas
All for one and one for all.
— Alexandre Dumas
Comte de la Fere, Touching Some Events Which Passed in France Toward the End of the Reign of King Louis XIII and the Commencement of the Reign
— Alexandre Dumas
What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.
— Alexandre Dumas
We have said that Athos loved d'Artagnan like a child, and this somber and inflexible personage felt the anxiety of a parent for the young man.
— Alexandre Dumas
Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream.
— Alexandre Dumas
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
— Alexandre Dumas
Man does not steal, he conquers
— Alexandre Dumas
God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers ...
— Alexandre Dumas
That man made a deep impression on me; I shall never forget his countenance!" The Englishman smiled imperceptibly.
— Alexandre Dumas
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
— Alexandre Dumas
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
— Alexandre Dumas
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
— Alexandre Dumas
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond
— Alexandre Dumas
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
— Alexandre Dumas
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.
— Alexandre Dumas
In this world, allmen, women, and kings
must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God — Alexandre Dumas
Have no secrets from you. This, then, is what saddens me." "Wait a minute, Porthos; let me first
— Alexandre Dumas
Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.
— Alexandre Dumas
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
— Alexandre Dumas
Passion can blind even those who are ordinarily the most clear-headed.
— Alexandre Dumas
I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
— Thomas-Alexandre Dumas
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.
— Alexandre Dumas
The pride of those who cannot edify lies in destruction
— Alexandre Dumas
Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.
— Alexandre Dumas
Parrying like a man who had the greatest respect for his own epidermis.
— Alexandre Dumas
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
— Alexandre Dumas
At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
— Alexandre Dumas
Haste is a poor counselor
— Alexandre Dumas
The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.
— Alexandre Dumas
We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. But
— Alexandre Dumas
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
— Alexandre Dumas
Women and doors - did I not tell you, friend Porthos, that they are always to be managed by gentleness? - D'Artagnan
— Alexandre Dumas
Punctuality is the politness of kings" p.154
— Alexandre Dumas
Never did a man deeply in love allow the clocks to go on peacefully.
— Alexandre Dumas
Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!
— Alexandre Dumas
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
— Alexandre Dumas
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
— Alexandre Dumas
