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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.


Alexandre Dumas

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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE For one to live the life, he gotta kill some lives. For one to kill, he gotta live the life of other...
EPHDAN If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might also seem to be made for the use and benefit ...
JOHN TILLOTSON Ayrton has this problem - he thinks that he can't kill himself.
ALAIN PROST If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of...
JAMES A. MICHENER Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, an...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. H...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
SENECA He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
GEORGE HERBERT He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever ...
LORD HERBERT He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever re...
GEORGE HERBERT It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness wo...
FRANZ KAFKA When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long nig...
ELIE WIESEL He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
MAXWELL ANDERSON I was just hoping that I would still have my son. Which he is, he is still here. He has a long way t...
GRACE JACKSON If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself...
ROMAIN ROLLAND A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY Every one has wishes which he would not like to tell to others, which he does not want to admit even...
SIGMUND FREUD He told us that Dad would kill us before he would let us live with Rick,
DEREK KING He is sure to be more happy who has eaten well and slept well and has besides a little money in his ...
HENRY MILLER My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I wou...
STEPHENIE MEYER Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at lib...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around hi...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-han...
CYRIL CONNOLLY He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
J. F. POWERS The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if...
THOMAS JEFFERSON He told our whole family he was going to kill her and kill himself after.
BELINDA TORRES Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. ...
THEODORE PARKER Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destro...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must ...
ABIGAIL ADAMS He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must b...
ARISTOTLE God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
MARY HARRIS JONES I have heard that he said he was not going to spend the rest of his life in prison, that he was goin...
EDWARD GONZALEZ No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the m...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors a...
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop...
RICHARD M. NIXON He who thinks to deceive God has already deceived himself.
VIKRANT PARSAI The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he ...
SIGMUND FREUD It was a total screw-up. No one would inject himself with something if he had any reason to believe ...
JOSE HERRERA If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open ...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES HUGHES A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
RAINER MARIA RILKE A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which h...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Not even a suicide does away with himself out of desperation, he considers the act so long and so de...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.
LUDWIG VON MISES What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth,...
SIGMUND FREUD By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h...
WILLIAM BARCLAY What a man has made himself, he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or...
CATHERINE CROWE According to the Buddha's teaching the beginning of the life-stream of living beings is unthinkable....
WALPOLA RAHULA If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others ca...
JAMES ALBERT PIKE …he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.
ELIZABETH GASKELL He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He shoul...
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A. W. TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
AIDEN WILSON TOZER An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that...
A.W. TOZER He chose to kill her. He could have stopped himself at any time, but he didn't. ... That's what ange...
CRUZ CARDER If we refuse to learn from history,then we will be condemned to live the life of fools.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities...
ALDOUS HUXLEY God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human fo...
GURU NANAK You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with...
JODI PICOULT Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doe...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER God Himself even "forgets" the wickedness committed by those whom He has forgiven. That's why it is ...
JAMES C. DOBSON God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great bless...
PETER MARSHALL The most he can live, the most, even if he has an operation, the doctor told me, would be a year,
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Antiquity is the aristocracy of history
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE After God, Shakespeare has created most
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Everything was believed except the truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himse...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE All for one, one for all.
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A husband is always a sensible man; he never thinks of marrying
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE A good surgeon operates with his hand, not with his heart
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it - sometimes three
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent t...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the ear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDER DUMAS Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDER DUMAS A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDER DUMAS The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
ALEXANDER DUMAS All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDER DUMAS I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
ALEXANDER DUMAS In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are th...
ALEXANDER DUMAS The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that...
ANN DUMAS There are so many exhibitions now, ... particularly in this very popular area of 19th-century French...
ANN DUMAS