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.
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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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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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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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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 takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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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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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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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
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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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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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