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Philosophy cannot be taught it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Alexandre Dumas
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Alexandre Dumas
Age: 68 †
Born: 1802
Born: July 24
Died: 1870
Died: December 5
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He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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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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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy... for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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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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Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)
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