So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: ‘Perhaps!
ALEXANDRE DUMASCapricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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God is always the last resource.
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Haste is a poor counselor.
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So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
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Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms.
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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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Be kind. Aim for my heart.
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
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If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
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Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
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If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
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I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
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I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
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