Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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God is always the last resource.
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