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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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God is always the last resource.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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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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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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