Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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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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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.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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