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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

Alexandre Dumas

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
I am a count, not a saint.
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Count Myself Saint
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Betrayal Fake Remember Revenge
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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Finding Humble Oneself Pure Soothing Sound
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Acceptance Believe Impossible Life Willing
Order is the key to all problems.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Key One Liner Order Problem
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Fools Learning Oneself
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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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
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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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth

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