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 DUMASI am a count, not a saint.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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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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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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