In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAll for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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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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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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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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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.
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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