Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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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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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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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Often 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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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