Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe 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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Order is the key to all problems.
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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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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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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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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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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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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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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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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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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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