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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.

Alexandre Dumas

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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Difficult Lying Value
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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Battle Creation Destroy Himself Learning Man Perfection
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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Character Count Death Life Moments Reality Reflection Visage
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
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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Explanation God Happiness Himself Language Man Prayer Talk
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
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Business Friendship Oneself
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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Crime Discover Finding Wish Yourself
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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Friendship Ground Heart Lost Ourselves
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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Believe Final God Himself Lesson Revenge Sentence
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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Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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Different Heart Lips Oneself Thinking
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
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Friendship Known Man Time Wait
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Blind Happiness Myself Pride Proud Thinking
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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Breathe Chain Connection Place Present Sadness Time
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Fortune Hang Life Myself
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Alone Angel Equality God Life Prayer Watch

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