Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

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.

In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a failure under your belt and you'll be ready for success.

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.

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.

The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, sometimes three.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

We are always in our own company.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go on making friends stupidly.

One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

All for one and one for all.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope.