Alexandre Dumas, pai: Frases em inglês (página 2)

“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another”

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

“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”

“Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".”

“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”

“Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.”

“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.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.”

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”

“… 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…”

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

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

“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.”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”

“… remember that what has once been done may be done again.”