True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTrue love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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