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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Death Hold Life Myself
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Education Finish Oneself Work
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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Friendship Life Man Moments Storm Young Yourself
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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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Battle Goodness Heart Beat Laughter Lose
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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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Language Master Oneself Opportunity
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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Laughter Myself Please Privilege

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

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