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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
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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Happiness is egotistical.
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A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- Wait and hope?
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
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