Alexandre Dumas
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.Collection: Education
It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.Collection: Death
Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.Collection: Money
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.Collection: Happiness
Nothing succeeds like success.Collection: Success
All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.Collection: Hope
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.Collection: Failure
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.Collection: Alone
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.Collection: Art
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
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.
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.Collection: Men
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophyCollection: Memories
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.Collection: Sight
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.Collection: Two
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.Collection: Happiness
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.Collection: Education
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.Collection: Fall
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.Collection: Lying
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.Collection: Failure
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.Collection: Differences
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.Collection: Father
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.Collection: Order
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.Collection: Truth
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.Collection: Wish
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.Collection: Heart
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.Collection: Pain
I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.Collection: Nice
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.Collection: Love
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.Collection: Believe
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.Collection: Intellectual
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.Collection: Love
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte CristoCollection: Bored
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.Collection: Men
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.Collection: Happiness
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.Collection: Heart
Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.Collection: Believe
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.Collection: Joy
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.Collection: Madmen
...remember that what has once been done may be done again.Collection: Done
Misfortune does not help us to believe.Collection: Believe
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.Collection: Air
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.Collection: Beautiful
...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.Collection: Call Me