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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

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
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
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Fools Heart Myself Revenge Tears
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Language Master Oneself Opportunity
Are 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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
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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Friendship Known Man Time Wait
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
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Exit Love Suspicious Togetherness
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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Care Friendship Heard Secret
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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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
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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Devotion Expectation Money Power Prompt

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