Misfortune does not help us to believe.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMisfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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No, 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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Wait and hope!
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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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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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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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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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