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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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And 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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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