Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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