There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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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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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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God is always the last resource.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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