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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

Alexandre Dumas

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.
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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
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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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Dangerous Love Point Wasted Time Writing
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
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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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.

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