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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAnd now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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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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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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