To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Here is your final lesson – do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, “Vengeance is mine.” […] He believes in you.
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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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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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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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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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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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I 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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