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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.

Alexandre Dumas

Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Art Evil Pain Yourself
Order is the key to all problems.
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Key One Liner Order Problem
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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God Himself Life Man Order Save
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth
Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Appearance Darkness Illumination Sun Yourself
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time
One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Education Finish Oneself Work
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Beginning Deliver Exhausted God
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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Dragon Fight Guard Happiness Order Palace
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
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Heart Himself Man Resolution
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
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Believe God Himself Yourself
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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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
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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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
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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Intoxicate Mindset Please Poet Woman
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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Mad Man Right Togetherness
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Children Education Intelligence Man Stupidity
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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Attack Country Defend Fear Heart Liberty Man Place

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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