Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
ALEXANDRE DUMASUnfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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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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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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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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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Wait and hope!
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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