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"Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved."
— Victor Hugo (Les Misérables)

9 people liked it

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."
— Victor Hugo

60 people liked it

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
— Victor Hugo

50 people liked it

"I have tasted all the happiness the world can offer"
— Gaston Leroux

6 people liked it

"I am not really wicked. Love me, and you will see!
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— Gaston Leroux (The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel)

17 people liked it

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest."
— Alexandre Dumas

31 people liked it

"He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

2 people liked it

"Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

47 people liked it

"I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

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— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

5 people liked it

"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

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"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! "
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

11 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,319 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,549 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,454 people liked it

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: fantasy
4,170 people liked it

"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,649 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,556 people liked it

"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
3,338 people liked it

"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
— William Shakespeare (A Midsummer Night's Dream)

tags: love
2,976 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,454 people liked it

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company."
— Mark Twain

tags: christian, humor, philosophy, theology
2,039 people liked it

"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
2,109 people liked it

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
1,962 people liked it

"If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary."
— David Sedaris (Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays)

tags: sympathy
1,793 people liked it

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."
— Aristotle

tags: wisdom
1,735 people liked it

"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."
— Thomas Stephen Szasz

tags: humor, inspirational
1,712 people liked it

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
— Marilyn Monroe

663 people liked it

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: enemies, forgiveness, strategy
6,534 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,793 people liked it

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."
— Bertrand Russell

tags: books, humor
842 people liked it

"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
764 people liked it

"Let us read and let us dance — two amusements that will never do any harm to the world."
— Voltaire

tags: dance, dancing, reading
575 people liked it

"Being crazy isn't enough."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: crazy
514 people liked it

"Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you."
— Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

tags: humor, science
439 people liked it

"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before."
— Mae West

tags: evil, temptation
514 people liked it

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."
— Emily Brontë

tags: love
427 people liked it

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)

396 people liked it

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."
— Walt Disney Company

367 people liked it

"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to."
— Dorothy Parker

tags: humor, money
333 people liked it

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: temptation
359 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: humor
354 people liked it

"Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if I had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice."
— Robert Frost (Robert Frost's Poems)

tags: poetry
365 people liked it

"What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul"
— Victor Hugo

tags: love, soul, stars
423 people liked it

"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: sleep
424 people liked it

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: saint, sinner
416 people liked it

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: hate, love, religion, sin, sinners
371 people liked it

"Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away."
— Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

tags: happiness
11 people liked it

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us."
— Helen Keller

tags: happiness
3 people liked it

"Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther

tags: beer, devil, drinking, temptation
8 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,391 people liked it

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