So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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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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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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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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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.
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Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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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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God is always the last resource.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Wait and hope!
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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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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
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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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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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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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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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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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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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A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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