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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

Alexandre Dumas

Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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Awkward Custom Fashion Future Law
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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Belief Faith God Himself Hope Misery
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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Beginning Deliver Exhausted God
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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Burn Fire Greatness Truth Water
So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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Afraid Alcohol Bad Fear Heart Thinking Worst
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
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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Choice Head Heart Ideas
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Difficult Escape Moments Planning Pleasure
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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Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
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
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
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Father God Himself Judgement Mercy Religion
So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Dreams Imagination Ourselves Wings
Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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Effect Oppression Sorrow Strange Time

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