Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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To 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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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