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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…
- I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
- So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take…
- I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
- 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…
- It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
- Upon my word," said Dantes, "you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles?" "Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and…
- Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External…
- Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know…
- There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt…
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