“But tell me," said Beauchamp, "what is life? Is it not a hall in Death's anteroom?” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“it is a law of nature; their fathers died before them, and they mourned their loss; they will die before their children,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He has not recovered the blow?" said he to Athos. He is struck to death." Oh! your fears exaggerate, I hope. Raoul… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is it?" said Jeanne, when Diana was gone; "you look rather gloomy." "Why, yes." "What has happened?" "Oh, mon Dieu! an… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“There is only one serious matter to be considered in life, and that is death.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“What is the sense in recriminations about things over which the will of God itself is powerless? God can change the future, He cannot… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“when you have the honour to find yourself in the company of ordinary men and the good fortune to be out of politics for… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“He rose in his turn, and seizing handfuls of confetti and sweetmeats, with which the carriage was filled, cast them with all the force… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Speak on, madame, speak on, Queen," said Buckingham; "the sweetness of your voice covers the harshness of your words.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Besides, what is required of a young man in Paris? To speak its language tolerably, to make a good appearance, to be a good… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
“What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share
