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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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