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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Alexandre Dumas

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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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
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
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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Gratitude Money Obligation Quit
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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Came Condition Fight Myself
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
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 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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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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Adventure Fear Myself Seek
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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Death Hold Life Myself
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
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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Drought Fall Ground Heart Suffering
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water

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