There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOn what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Wait and hope!
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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