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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOften 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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Wait and hope!
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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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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