I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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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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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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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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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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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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