I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
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I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.
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Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
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It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
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One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never.
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Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
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It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
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So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.
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