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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

Alexandre Dumas

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Difficult Person Position
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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Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Doubt Enemy Man Person Rank
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Diet Drunk Lover Protection
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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Advice Blame General Order People Rule
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
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

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