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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBesides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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