You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Wait and hope!
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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God is always the last resource.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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