Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious 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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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