Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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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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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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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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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
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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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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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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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Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
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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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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 of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
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...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
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How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
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That Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me.
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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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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
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What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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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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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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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.