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“Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

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

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Variant: ... for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“… 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

Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117 <br class="br">The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)

“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Source: The Three Musketeers

“All for one, one for all, that is our motto.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Tous pour un, un pour tous, c'est notre devise
Variant: All for one and one for all.
Source: The Three Musketeers (1844), Ch. 9: D'Artagnan Shows Himself.

“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked.

"Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“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.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Pain, thou art not an evil”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.”

Alexandre Dumas

“Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers

Variant: Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
Source: The Three Musketeers

“Order is the key to all problems.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo