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 DUMASYour bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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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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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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