Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTruly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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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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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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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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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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