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- The mother is only really the mistress of her daughter upon the condition of continually representing herself to her as a model of wisdom and…
- Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
- 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…
- In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
- 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…
- 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…
- Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character,…
- You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
- For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by…
- 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 difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
- ......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
- In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
- You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
- In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics…
- 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…
- 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…
- Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears…
- I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is…
- 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…
- To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like…
- It is only the dead who do not return.
- That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
- 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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