Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAre there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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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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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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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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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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You 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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