I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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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We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantes’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
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The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
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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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Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
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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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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 wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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Joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
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God is always the last resource.
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On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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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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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.
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For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
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I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
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The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
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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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You who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
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The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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