If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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Wait and hope!
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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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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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