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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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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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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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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.
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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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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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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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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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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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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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