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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.

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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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Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie
Alexandre Dumas
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Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
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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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Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.
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It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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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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For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]
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Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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