If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn 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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Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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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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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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