Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character,” said the count; “on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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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.
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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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Pain, thou art not an evil.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Order is the key to all problems.
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God is always the last resource.
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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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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Wait and hope!
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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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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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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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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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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