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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo 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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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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It is only the dead who do not return.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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