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 DUMASAh, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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