I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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