The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken.


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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins whe...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
All for one, one for all.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
The religious annals of the South are nothing more than a double entry ledger kept by fanaticism wit...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representin...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
The same thing is happening to me as happens to people in dreams when they see and feel a wound but ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Oh, the good times when we were so unhappy
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are th...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that...
ANN DUMAS
There are so many exhibitions now, ... particularly in this very popular area of 19th-century French...
ANN DUMAS