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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
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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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
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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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Fools Heart Myself Revenge Tears
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal
Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Beginning Deliver Exhausted God
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings

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