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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.

Alexandre Dumas

Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Communication Devil Yourself
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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Appearance Future Horizon Mindset Promise Way Weakness
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
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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Man Promise Rare Threat Woman
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Fortune Hang Life Myself
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Division Fall Togetherness Unity

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