Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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God is always the last resource.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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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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