For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWe’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
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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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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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Order is the key to all problems.
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True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
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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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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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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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So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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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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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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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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