I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBusiness? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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