Quotes from The Man in the Iron Mask

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“So like Athos." thought Aramis; "That which is actually good never alters.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“What the deuce does the fellow mean by getting trap-doors made without first consulting you? Trap-doors!”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“No. I will remain because I have been accustomed for thirty years to go and take the orderly word of the King, and to have it said to me, 'Good evening, d'Artagnan,' with a smile I did not beg for!”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Nimic nu-mi poate fi mai plăcut, dragă prietene, decât să mă reîntorc în singurătatea mea, sub copacii mei stufoși, pe țărmul Loarei. Dacă Dumnezeu e cel mai mare tămăduitor al rănilor sufletești, natura îți dăruiește leacurile cele mai neîntrecute.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Dacă florile înseamnă libertate, reluă cu tristețe osânditul, atunci înseamnă că libertatea o am, de vreme ce am florile.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Luisa, es peligroso pasar días enteros con la cabeza abatida sobre el pecho, las manos inertes, la mirada vaga; es peligroso buscar las avenidas sombrías y no participar de las diversiones que regocijan los corazones de las las jóvenes; es peligroso, Luisa, escribir con a punta del pie; como sueles hacer, sobre la arena, letras que, por más que te apresures a borrarlas; siempre aparecen por debajo del talón, principalmente cuando esas letras se asemejan más a una L que a una B; es peligroso, en fin, forjarse allá en la mente mil extrañas ilusiones, fruto de la soledad y de los dolores de cabeza; esas ilusiones socavan las mejillas de una pobre muchacha al mismo tiempo que su cerebro, y no es cosa rara ver en esas ocasiones a una persona de amable y risueño trato volverse taciturna y fastidiosa, y a la de más talento convertida en una imbécil.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“have no secrets from you. This, then, is what saddens me." "Wait a minute, Porthos; let me first”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Dumnezeu a făcut tot ce vedem, Raoul; tot el ne-a zidit și pe noi, bieți atomi rătăciți în acest univers; strălucim ca toate aceste puncte de lumină, ca toate stelele ce spuzesc depărtările, lăsăm să ne scape suspine asemenea valurilor înconjurătoare, suferim ca toate aceste corăbii uriașe ce îmbătrânesc spintecând valurile, plecându-se sub furia vântului ce le călăuzește către o țintă, după cum sufletul lui Dumnezeu ne alungă și pe noi spre cine știe care țărm. Totul se leagă cu dragoste de viață, Raoul, și toate sunt frumoase în mijlocul lucrurilor vii.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the skin untouched, and marble not the firm, fair flesh, with their blue tints; the physician who bends over the patient's chest hears not, through he listens, the insatiable teeth of the disease grinding its onward progress through the muscles, as the blood flows freely on; the knife has never been able to destroy, and rarely even, temporarily, to discern the rage of these mortal scourges; their home is in the mind, which they corrupt; they fill the whole heart until it breaks. Such, madame, are the cancers, fatal to queens; are you, too, free from their scourge?”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“We are often criminals in the eyes of the earth, not only for having committed crimes, but because we know that crimes have been committed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

“Si Dios es el médico supremo de los males del alma, la naturaleza es el remedio soberano.”
― Alexandre Dumas, quote from The Man in the Iron Mask

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