“I have my pride for men--serpents always ready to threaten every one who would pass without crushing them under foot. But I… — Alexandre Dumas God Copy Share Image
“Come here, Grimaud," said Athos. To punish you for having spoken without leave my friend, you must eat this piece of paper:… — Alexandre Dumas Friendship Copy Share Image
“Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down… — Alexandre Dumas Life Copy Share Image
“This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“...the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; it needs trouble and… — Alexandre Dumas Freedom Copy Share Image
“But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is… — Alexandre Dumas Dear friend Copy Share Image
“In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of… — Alexandre Dumas Time Copy Share Image
“Alas, my child,’ he said, ‘human knowledge is very limited and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history and the three… — Alexandre Dumas Children Copy Share Image
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty.… — Alexandre Dumas Poetry Copy Share Image
“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which… — Alexandre Dumas Bad thoughts Copy Share Image
Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it… — Alexandre Dumas Advice Copy Share Image
“I have lost my friends," D'Artagnan said ruefully, burying his head in his hands. "I have nothing left but the bitterest of… — Alexandre Dumas Friendship 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 Death Copy Share Image
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.… — Alexandre Dumas Friendship Copy Share Image
“There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only… — Alexandre Dumas Happiness Copy Share Image
“Consider that, if you talk, if you babble, you will sacrifice the head of your master, who has so much confidence in… — Alexandre Dumas Confidence Copy Share Image
The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the… — Alexandre Dumas Adversity Copy Share Image
“Dantes remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or rather soul;… — Alexandre Dumas Classic literature 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 Death Copy Share Image
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle… — Alexandre Dumas Beauty Copy Share Image
“How strange," continued the king, with some asperity; "the police think that they have disposed of the whole matter when they say,… — Alexandre Dumas Crime Copy Share Image
“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the… — Alexandre Dumas Blood flow Copy Share Image
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which… — Alexandre Dumas Admiration Copy Share Image
“My opinion is, that all these old podestas, these ancient condottieri, — for the Cavalcanti have commanded armies and governed provinces, —… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Well, so much the better for him,’ said the inspector. ‘When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.’ As you can… — Alexandre Dumas Inspector Copy Share Image
Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Those who are born in a gilt cradle and have never wanted for anything, do not know what happiness life contains, just… — Alexandre Dumas Compassion Copy Share Image
Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself… — Alexandre Dumas Angel Copy Share Image
“Indeed, four men like them, four men devoted to each other from their money to their lives, four men always supporting each… — Alexandre Dumas Friendship Copy Share Image
“If I succeed in mentally constructing a fortress from which it is impossible to escape, this conceived fortress either will be the… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I am selfish — you have already said so— and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do… — Alexandre Dumas Independent thinking Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
