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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Alexandre Dumas

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
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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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Experience Feeling Grief Happiness Himself
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Exit Love Suspicious Togetherness
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.
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Appearance Future Horizon Mindset Promise Way Weakness
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
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Dragon Fight Guard Happiness Order Palace
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
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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Date Difference Patriotism
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
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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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst
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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Came Condition Fight Myself
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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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Friendship Known Man Time Wait
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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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
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

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

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