Alexandre Dumas

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

One must learn to suffer well.

The heart is a strange thing.

I write for money, but I would write for glory.

The greatest pleasure is to be loved.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

I am a French man, and I love my country.

There are no facts, only interpretations.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I am not a man, I am a river.

Woman is a creature who is always in the wrong when she has a lover and in the right when she has none.

How can we expect a man to be as good as his word when he has no good word in him?

One's first love is always the most foolish.

For the happy man, time is a river; for the unhappy, it is a torrent.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes be faulty, but the soul's sight is always true.

How can one live without a touch of madness?

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

The difference between us and the English is that they are always thinking of what they are going to say, and we are always thinking of what we have said.

Hatred is blind; anger is deaf: he who pours oil on the fire only increases the flame.

When you stab a man, you stab him once; when you stab a woman, you stab her a thousand times.