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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

Alexandre Dumas

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
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
It is only the dead who do not return.
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Death One Liner Return
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Fortune Generosity Hate Limitation True
Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Beside Happiness Pass Recognition
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Business Live Man Ourselves Risk
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
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Application Philosophy Science Teaching Truth
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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Awake Dreams Fortunate Himself Known Sleep
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
Wait and hope!
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Hope Patience Wait
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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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
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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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves

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