Famous quotes by Alexandre Dumas:
"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life."
"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
"All for one, one for all, that is our device."
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
"Nothing succeeds like success."
"What's history?"
"Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."
"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works."
"It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job."
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."