God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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God is always the last resource.
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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Wait and hope!
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