[Anfernee]

“Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Twenty Years After

[Anfernee]

“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage - it encourages early rising.”
― Alexandre Dumas, Adventures in Czarist Russia

"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."

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.”
― Alexandre Dumas

[anna1561]

You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.

Alexandre Dumas

[anna1561]

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.

Alexandre Dumas

[anna1561]

Private misfortunes must never induce us to neglect public affairs.

Alexandre Dumas

[anna1561]

Naples is the flower of paradise. The last adventure of my life.

Alexandre Dumas

[MiaJohn]

"Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin."

Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers

“Happiness is egotistical.”
― Alexandre Dumas

[MiaJohn]

My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar

Alexandre Dumas
The Vicomte de Bragelonne

[angellove0810]

“It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

[MiaJohn]

"never yet was there a lawsuit which did not have a woman at the bottom of it"

Alexandre Dumas
The Mohicans of Paris

[Infy]

“You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.”
― Alexandre Dumas