Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn 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.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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