I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.

Alexandre Dumas

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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.

Alexandre Dumas

grief feelings happiness

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 a man is what you do when that storm comes.

Alexandre Dumas

young-friends rocks men

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

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silence evil two

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

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understanding philosophy memories

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

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sight forever two

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

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musketeers unity fall

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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stupid education children

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

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teaching education math

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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sad feelings men

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.

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accompany-us heart may

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

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failure doubt men

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 ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

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love men life

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

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sacred women love-is

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

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spiritual love life

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

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treason differences matter

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

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ocean real happiness

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

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fairy-stories fighting happiness

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

Alexandre Dumas

stars darkness night

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.

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distance dream sleep

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Alexandre Dumas

ink bottles paper