Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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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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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Wait and hope!
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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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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