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It is only the dead who do not return.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?
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You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!
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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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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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Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
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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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Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".
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Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
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Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? — why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections — an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places — which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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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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Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
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Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
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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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In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.
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