Alexandre Dumas

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

There are some misfortunes in life that you can't blame on anyone else.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it deposits all moral phenomena with its mantle of forgetfulness.

There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that ever happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question.