What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
ALEXANDRE DUMASJoy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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God is always the last resource.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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