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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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Pain, thou art not an evil.
Alexandre Dumas
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All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
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It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the name of the chosen one and recommends him to the admiration of posterity.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
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I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.
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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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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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For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.
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In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God.
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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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In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
Alexandre Dumas
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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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Happiness is egotistical.
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In prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!
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Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
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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 are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
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Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.
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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.
Alexandre Dumas