In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBe 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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