For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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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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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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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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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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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