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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.

Alexandre Dumas

One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Education Finish Oneself Work
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
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
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Book Myself Paper Sword
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
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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Intoxicate Mindset Please Poet Woman
Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Choice Head Heart Ideas
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy

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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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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