Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

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Truly generous people are always ready to become compassionate when the enemy's misfortune exceeds the bounds of their hatred.

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Whatever you do is too little when it comes to spreading a truth.

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Not too many can be friends.

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Anger is a sign of weakness.

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You can't ask someone who is in love for the first time to keep quiet. First love is accompanied by such stormy joy that it needs expression, otherwise it will suffocate the lover.

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Youth is a great disadvantage to someone who is no longer young.

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People who never ask you anything are the best comforters.

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People are always like this: ready to strike with an ax at the vanity of their neighbor, but when their own vanity is pricked with a needle, they scream.

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Love without respect does not go far or rise high: it is like an angel with only one wing.

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The easiest to achieve are those dreams, which are not questioned.

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Nadejdea is the best doctor of all I know.

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He who can create something great will also create something small.

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As you get older, you think more and more about your youth.

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No matter how nice a man talks, remember: when he talks too much, he will eventually say something stupid.

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Busy people don't have time to look at women.

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Woman is sacred; the woman you love is twice as sacred.

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Waiting is only impossible when you do nothing.

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Submission to a superior force is never cowardice.

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You never have to be an exception. If you live among madmen, you must learn to be mad.

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The higher in the sky a mighty eagle flies, the longer it must rest on earth.

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Houses, like people, have their soul and their face that reflects the inner essence.

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He who takes revenge sometimes regrets it; he who forgives is never sorry.

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That's right: youth rejoices, old age scolds.

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Happiness in solitude is not complete happiness.

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A passion blinds even the most temperate minds.

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An advice is more than a service.

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The feeble-minded always see everything through a veil of mourning.

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Miserliness dries up the soul.

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A mistress you can part with, but a wife, damn it, is something else: to her you are bound forever - whether you are near or far from each other.

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It is seldom that the thing you desire so passionately is not guarded by someone with the same passion.

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Jealousy is a sign of love.

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Undead appear only to those who need to see them.

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Fear not dead rivals, but living enemies!

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He who feels the will to fight wastes no time and immediately responds to fate blow for blow.

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We love everyone as the Lord commands us to love our neighbor - with Christian love; but a few I hate with all my heart.

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All human wisdom consists in two words: to wait and to hope!

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A person does not think about what he wants, but what comes to his mind.

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It takes misfortune to tap into the secret powers of the human mind.

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Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they can be hidden, but they never quite heal. As soon as they touch them, they cause pain again and again, they bleed easily, they always remain alive and sensitive.

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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness on this earth, the two concepts can only be compared. Only those who have experienced the greatest degree of unhappiness can experience the greatest happiness.

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Truly noble-souled men are always ready to pity whenever the desperation of their enemies exceeds the limits of their hatred.

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When one's heart is filled with the greatest despair, one has no expression for the intervening feelings.

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A woman's homeland is the country where she is in love.

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The woman does not have the ability to completely erase the image of the person who fascinated her for a long time by just exerting her will. You need to replace it with another one. It does not destroy, but complements each other. When the second image is bigger and wider than the first, and nothing of this is visible anymore, then everything is fine. This is oblivion. When it is smaller than him, and the edges of the old one are visible from under it, then everything is in vain: this is remorse.

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He who has loved twice has never loved once.

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In love, a woman is born from what she receives, and a man dies from what he gives.

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I like ghosts. I have never heard of the dead doing as much evil in six thousand years as the living do in a single day.

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Speak only when you must, and say only half of what you think; write only what you can sign and do only what you can say.

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Even if the whole world hates you, I will still love you, and I will love you even when one day there will be two suns in the sky. Hide underground, run through burning fire, I will always follow you. Our love is mutual and no one can separate us. And the hours spent with you are dearer to me than the fragrant fields of the afterlife. If you hate me and drive me away, I'll still love you. Your image is reflected in the eyes of my thoughts. And I see you awake or asleep, I always only talk to you. When I die, don't say that my last hour has come, but that my love for you has put me in the grave. And no matter how far I am from you, I am always by your side and my eyes only see you.

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Sometimes we suffer enough to have the right to never say: - I am very, very happy.

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God wanted man's gaze to be the only thing he could not hide.

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Nothing makes time run like that, and the way doesn't get shortened like when some thought impresses the whole being, the whole soul of the one who thinks. In this case, external existence is almost just sleep, and the dream of this sleep is the certain thought. As a result, time loses its duration, space loses its extension. We start from somewhere, we arrive somewhere, that's all we know. From our journey, the memory only takes in a kind of vague fog: countless blurred images float in it, trees, mountains, landscapes.

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All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

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What is death? I'm one step closer to calm, and maybe two closer to silence.

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The woman who inspires us to do great things is often the same woman who prevents us from achieving them.

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Women are like those flowers that chance has sprouted from the earth in the shadows; they break towards the light, unfold their fresh and fragrant petals in the sun, which then withers and consumes them.

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Is the soul that preserves its innocence in its soft, sheltered little home, away from temptations, stronger and nobler than the one that, left to itself, tempted a thousand times, can cleanse itself of its sins?

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Imagination has the speed of an angel and lightning: you cross seas on which we were almost shipwrecked, dark depths that devoured our dreams, and eddies in which our happiness drowned.

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Ecstasy is similar to remembering. Ecstasy is essentially the memory of the soul when it thinks back to heaven.

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Other people's money is always the best deal.

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There are moments in this sad life when we must sin to prevent sin.

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I like to keep what is commonly called a good deed a secret.

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The cap only brings a smile to the one who sees in the dark, faces the elements and defeats death.

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All human wisdom can be found in these words: "To wait and hope!"

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My assessment today lacks an accurate appreciation of the past, because I see the past from the other end of the spectrum. What is certain is that as time progresses, the past (...) becomes more and more blurred. I walked like those who cut themselves in a dream: they see and feel their wounds, but do not remember where they were inflicted.

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It is characteristic of despondent souls that they see everything in a mournful color. The soul itself draws the line of sight.

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The friends we have lost do not rest in the ground, but reside within our hearts.

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In all man-made things, even the bad ones, there is some harmony: - time, this mediator between man and God, softens the edges and allows the transition between pain and smile.

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I sinned from dust, and I will return to dust. Life is full of humiliation, full of pain (...), we want to attach ourselves to the chariot of happiness, but every thread breaks, especially the golden thread.

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Hate is blind, anger knows no measure, and whoever wants revenge can easily drink the bitter cup himself.

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Death, on the first step of the blood bench, pulls off the mask that a person has worn throughout their life, and the person's true face emerges.

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There is only one serious thought in life: death. Now, isn't it interesting to study how many ways the soul can leave the body, and how individual people, according to their character, temperament, and even the customs of their country, make the final journey that leads from existence to non-existence? I can say this much: the more people we see dying, the easier it is for us to settle into the thought of death. In my opinion, death is just a physical punishment anyway, but not a real crime.

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When a person shows his friend a city that he already knows well, he is somehow bragging as if he were showing the woman who was once his lover.

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Unhappiness and happiness are the secret of the walls. The walls have ears, but they have no tongue.

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No matter how good-hearted a person is, after a while he stops visiting those who make him sad.

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The right of youth to believe and hope. But old people see death more clearly.

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The mother of a bad thought is usually a perverted mental structure, because by nature man is horrified by sin. However, civilization has given us vices, vices, artificial desires that sometimes force us to suppress our good instincts and lead us to evil. This is where the principle comes from: "If you want to find the guilty party, first find the person who benefited from the crime committed."

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Money is like a woman, you feel the most that you loved it and to what extent you loved it, when you turn away from it.

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And eternal striving is the most beautiful and greatest divine favor that can be bestowed on a thinker, a physician, or any mortal man. A person who tries all his life lives a meaningful life.

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The ultimate joy of the unhappy is silence; don't think of telling anyone if something hurts, because curiosity makes our tears foam like flies make deer's blood.

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There are situations that only our instincts perceive, but our intellect cannot explain.

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Scarcity and poverty are related concepts, but there is a whole world between them.

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According to the tacit agreement on which the internal discipline of families is based, the mother can only maintain her authority in front of her granddaughter if she stands before her as an example, as the embodiment of wisdom and perfection.

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They never talked about their love for each other. They grew up next to each other like two trees whose roots are in the same soil, whose branches are in the air, and whose scent is mingling in the sky. The only thing they had in common was that they would rather die than be separated even for a day.

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The heart breaks when the tepid flood of hope has really filled it, and then the harsh reality hits it!

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you are my friend (...) He is the only consolation of my miserable life, given to me by heaven. Even if a bit late, you have finally given me this priceless gift, and I thank you for it. As I say goodbye to you forever, I wish you find the happiness and all the good you deserve.

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Sometimes unexpected happiness knocks on the door for those who have been treated like a stepchild by fate for a long time.

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My true treasure (...) is not what awaits me under the dark rocks of Monte Cristo, but (...) the knowledge with which you enlightened my mind, the languages ​​you taught me, the various sciences, which your profound knowledge has made so easy for me to understand, and the clear principles to which you have brought them back—these are my treasures, my friend, with which you have made me rich and happy. Believe me, be comforted, it is worth more to me than any tons of gold and chests full of diamonds, even if they were not as uncertain as those clouds which we see in the morning over the sea and think from a distance to be land, but as we approach them , they dissipate.

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Philosophy cannot be learned. Philosophy is the summation of the sciences acquired by the flamboyant who applies knowledge.

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There are thoughts that come from the brain and there are thoughts that come from the heart.

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It is always urgent to be happy (...), because when someone has already suffered a lot, it is very difficult to believe in happiness.

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Man was not born to easily (...) achieve happiness! Happiness is like palaces on enchanted islands whose gates are guarded by dragons. We have to fight for it to conquer it.

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Misfortune does not make a believer.

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Here you are, human pride and selfishness! At last, the man is standing before me again, who wants to kill the vanity of others with a blow of an ax, but if his own is only hit by a needle, he is already beside himself.

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Pretend you respect yourself and others will.

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You know I'll never leave you. The tree does not leave the flower, but the flower leaves the tree.

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Everyone has their own aspects that prevent them from noticing other people's.

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The dream must again be followed by reality. (...) If you compare the pains of real existence with the pleasures of artificial existence, you will never want to live anymore, only to dream forever. When you then leave your own separate world for the second world, you will feel as if you are passing from the spring of Naples to the winter of Lapland, you will feel that you have left paradise for earth, heaven for hell.

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For the long-suffering heart, joy is like dew on sun-parched soil: heart and earth eagerly drink in the beneficial drops, but their appearance reveals nothing.

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No matter how hard we are trained by danger, no matter how prepared we are for it, we always realize from the beating of our hearts and the trembling of our bodies that there is a huge difference between the dream and reality, the plan and its implementation.

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He who lives among fools must also serve the apprenticeship of folly.

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There are two views: the body and the soul. The physical eye may sometimes forget, but the soul's eye remembers forever.

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Beyond a certain degree of wealth, only excess can be considered indispensable.

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In the depths of the passions, beyond the pleasure, there is always a little remorse.

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Every step we take in life is like the path a crawling worm makes in the sand: it leaves a groove.

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After every somewhat vigorous act, conscience has redeemed us, for it offers us a thousand excellent excuses, which we alone can judge by ourselves. And these excuses, however excellent they may be for ensuring a peaceful sleep, might not even be sufficient to save our lives in a court of law.

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Man will only be perfect if he can create and destroy. (...) Anyway, he already knows how to destroy, and this is already one half of the path to perfection.

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There are two cures for every problem: time and silence.