I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
ALEXANDRE DUMASBesides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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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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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
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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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It is only the dead who do not return.
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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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Moral wounds have this peculiarity – they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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