Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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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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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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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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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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Joy 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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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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