I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWomen are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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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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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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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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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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