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.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere 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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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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Know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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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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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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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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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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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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