You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn 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.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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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