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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMisfortune does not help us to believe.
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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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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God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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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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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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God is always the last resource.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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Through 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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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
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So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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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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I am a count, not a saint.
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Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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