A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Happiness is egotistical.
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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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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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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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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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