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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASNo, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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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.
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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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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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