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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
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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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Defeat Myself Strong Woman
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Came Condition Fight Myself
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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Black Cloud Horizon Mindset See Sky Weakness Yourself
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Beautiful History Offspring Rape
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
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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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water

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