The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAs a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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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.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Wait and hope!
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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