The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOften we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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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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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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In this world, all–men, women, and kings–must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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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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We 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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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