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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Alexandre Dumas

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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Knowledge Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy Understanding
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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Fools Learning Oneself
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
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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Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you.
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Believe God Himself Yourself
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
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Comparison Dreams Forever Imagination Life Oneself Reality Sorrow
Happiness is egotistical.
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Ego Happiness
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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Beautiful History Offspring Rape
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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Known Learning Memories Oneself Philosophy
Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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Conflict Life Passion Place Social Storm
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
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Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
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Charming Doubt Yourself
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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Believe Difficult Fortune Goodness Happiness Hurry Suffering
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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Bitter Memories Oneself Sweet Time
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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Body Forever Forget Remember See Sight Soul Way
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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Betrayal Flower Tree

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