Misfortune does not help us to believe.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWithout 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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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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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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There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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