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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

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Laughter Myself Please Privilege
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Believe God Himself Yourself
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
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Communication Devil Yourself
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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Division Fall Togetherness Unity
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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Blood Heart Hide Moral Painful Wound
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
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Fools Heart Myself Revenge Tears
Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Goodness Happiness Sadness Time
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy

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