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Men Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
- So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take…
- It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when…
- God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
- Why do you mention my father?' screamed he; 'Why do you mingle a recollection of him with the affairs of today?' Because I am he…
- 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…
- True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
- Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from…
- Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
- 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…
- A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of…
- In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
- Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
- The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could…
- In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics…
- Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which…
- His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
- There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt…
- Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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