So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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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 do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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