Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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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Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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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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You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
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In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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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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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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