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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.

Alexandre Dumas

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
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
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
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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Believe Difficult Fortune Goodness Happiness Hurry Suffering
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
Haste is a poor counselor.
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Counseling Haste Poor
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
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Children Education Intelligence Man Stupidity
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
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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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal

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