Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe 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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It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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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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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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 prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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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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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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