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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Came Condition Fight Myself
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Holy Instagram Captions Love Sacred Woman
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Bliss Capability Despair Man Ultimate
To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
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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Friendship Known Man Time Wait
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing

We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

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