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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

Alexandre Dumas

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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Death Lose Love Strength Strong
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
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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Life Live Love Novel People Story
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
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Believe Deep Misery Misfortune
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.
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Boredom Courage Desire Hungry Myself Sleep
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.
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Blow Heaven People Resignation Struggle Suffering Tears Willing
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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Final Himself Smile Wisdom
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
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Carry Chain heavy Need
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Business Money People Quite Simplicity
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
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
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Bored Food Hungry Myself

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

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