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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYou are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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