The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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I am a count, not a saint.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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