“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.

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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. ”
― Alexandre Dumas

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“A man is always endowed by Heaven with too much for his own happiness, and just enough to make him miserable.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.”
― Alexandre Dumas

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“A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Man in the Iron Mask

Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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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

Well, we're all mortal...and the old must make way for the young, otherwise there would be no promotion.”
― Alexander Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
― Alexandre Dumas

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy."

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.”

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo.

“Obsequies, madame, are for those who survive, not for the dead.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Marquise de Brinvilliers

“Oh, man,” murmured d’Avrigny, “the most selfish of all animals, the most personal of all creatures, who believes the earth turns, the sun shines, and death strikes for him alone,—an ant cursing God from the top of a blade of grass!”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo