You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYou are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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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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Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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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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And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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Order is the key to all problems.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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Learning 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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