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 DUMASAll for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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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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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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Wait and hope!
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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