Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHow 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 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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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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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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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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