Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGreat is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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God is always the last resource.
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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.
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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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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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