Top 500 Alexandre Dumas Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “People in general,” he said, “only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.”

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102. “God is always the last resource.”

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103. “The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

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104. “A good deed is never lost.”

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105. “I have heard it said that the dead have never done, in six thousand years, as much evil as the living do in a single day.”

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106. “Men’s minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.”

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107. “All for one, one for all.”

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108. “Admire yourself and others will admire you’, a hundred times more useful in our days than the Greek one: ‘Know thyself’, which has now been replaced by the less demanding and more profitable art of knowing others.”

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109. “There are, indeed, some things which appear so impossible that the mind does not dwell on them for an instant.”

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110. “Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du coeur, comme chaque fruit son ver.”

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111. “Do not give me more credit than I deserve, and you will never have to revise your first impression of me.”

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112. “Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- “Wait and hope”?”

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113. “I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.”

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114. “Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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 girl the threat of a woman.”

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118. “Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady.”

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119. “In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.”

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120. “I have to admit,’ replied Villefort, looking at his father with astonishment, ‘you seem very well informed.’ ‘Heavens, it’s simple enough. You people, who hold power, have only what can be bought for money; we, who are waiting to gain power, have what is given out of devotion.’ ‘Devotion?’ Villefort laughed. ‘Yes, devotion. That is the honest way to describe ambition when it has expectations.”

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121. “Yet what is expectation but a kind of folly, and what is that folly but an excess of hope?”

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122. “When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter – to quit paradise for earth – heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine – taste the hashish.”

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123. “He decided it was human hatred and not divine vengeance that had plunged him into this abyss. He doomed these unknown men to every torment that his inflamed imagination could devise, while still considering that the most frightful were too mild and, above all, too brief for them: torture was followed by death, and death brought, if not repose, at least an insensibility that resembled it.”

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124. “Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own.”

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125. “He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

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126. “A young man – we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown;.”

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127. “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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128. “Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life.”

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129. “Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!”

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130. “An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.”

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131. “For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.”

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132. “It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!”

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133. “Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an inkstand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction. The life of a man was to him of far less value than a numeral, especially when, by taking it away, he could increase the sum total of his own desires.”

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134. “Life is so uncertain, that we ought to secure happiness while it is within our reach.”

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135. “The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.”

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136. “Danglars was one of those men born with a pen behind the ear, and an ink-stand in place of a heart. Everything with him was multiplication or subtraction, and he estimated the life of a man as less precious than a figure, when that figure could increase, and the life would diminish, the total of the amount.”

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137. “I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.”

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138. “Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.”

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139. “But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.”

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140. “Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.”

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141. “Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”

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142. “When I think of you my heart beats fast, the blood burns in my veins and I can hardly breathe.”

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143. “There are men who have suffered and who have not only gone on living, but even built a new fortune on the ruins of their former happiness. From the depths into which their enemies have plunged them, they have risen again with such vigor and glory that they have dominated their former conquerors and cast them down in their turn.”

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144. “Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.”

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145. “I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent.”

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146. “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, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.”

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147. “Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain in” -Edmond Dantes, Chapter 5.”

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148. “To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.”

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149. “Danglars was one of those calculating men who are born with a pen behind their ear and an inkwell instead of a heart.”

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150. “Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.”

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