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 DUMASIn love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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God is always the last resource.
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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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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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