When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWhen 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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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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God is always the last resource.
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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