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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?

Alexandre Dumas

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
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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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Evil Remedy Silence Time
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
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
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
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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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Fools Myself Rest
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking

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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