QUOTES by Alexander Dumas
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
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"True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring."
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"D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning."
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"
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"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."
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"I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses."
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"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."
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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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"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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"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
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"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
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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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"What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die."
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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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"Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy."
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"Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it."
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"You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."
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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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"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
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"Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"."
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"Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it."
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"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."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."
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"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy"
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"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
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"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."
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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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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."
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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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"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."
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