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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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Villers-Cotterets
Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.
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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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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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As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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.
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One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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Pain, thou art not an evil
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Hatred is blind rage carries you away and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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