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Alexandre Dumas
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing mor...
“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requ...
“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait ...
“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”
“When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, onl...
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates a...
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it....
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in...
“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed wh...
“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, jus...
“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
