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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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Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine. [...] He believes in you.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
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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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I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
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I am not proud, but I am happy and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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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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