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. Alexandre Dumas More Quotes by Alexandre Dumas More Quotes From Alexandre Dumas For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. Alexandre Dumas heart two ideas 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 this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity. Alexandre Dumas names doe men 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. Alexandre Dumas yellow two people Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms Alexandre Dumas passion littles world 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. Alexandre Dumas mother men father Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything? Alexandre Dumas men believe thinking In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless. Alexandre Dumas french-love famous-love writing that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me Alexandre Dumas four three challenges When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast. Alexandre Dumas tears heart men There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Alexandre Dumas valentine fighting struggle Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen. Alexandre Dumas pluck fruit youth True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring. Alexandre Dumas offspring beautiful You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap! Alexandre Dumas care tears air It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing. Alexandre Dumas battle eye heart I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish. Alexandre Dumas taken beautiful children ...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it? Alexandre Dumas grief doe Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. Alexandre Dumas gentleman worry believe We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. Alexandre Dumas first-love joy firsts And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked. Alexandre Dumas gratitude farewell kindness Pain, thou art not an evil Alexandre Dumas pain evil art
