Misfortune does not help us to believe.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYou who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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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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Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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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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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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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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