Alexandre Dumas Quotes
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
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The man of superior abilities always finds admirers, go where he will.
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When you have once devoted your life, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals; and whosoever has taken this resolution feels his strength and resources doubled.
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish know not what is the real happiness of life.
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Why picture the future so fraught with evil? Because I judge it from the past.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparent.
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Excitement, like enthusiasm, sometimes renders us unconscious to the things of earth.
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The friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts.
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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 the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
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Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words - "Wait and hope."
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