Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThrough the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
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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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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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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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Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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All for one, one for all, that is our device.
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In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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