God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLearning 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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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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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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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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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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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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