I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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God is always the last resource.
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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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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.
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