God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIf it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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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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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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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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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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