Alexandre Dumas Quotes

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• The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
• The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and…
• Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
• Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
• Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
• How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
• If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
• It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little…
• All for one, one for all, that is our device.
• Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
• 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…
• 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…
• Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
• 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…
• I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
• In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
• Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
• Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me.…
• 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.
• 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…

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