Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious 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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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Happiness is egotistical.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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