A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground, they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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