Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

comme ses ordres étaient toujours clairs, précis et faciles à exécuter, ses compagnons lui obéissaient non seulement avec promptitude, mais encore avec plaisir.

unless an evil thought is born in a twisted mind, human nature is repelled by crime. However, civilization has given us needs, vices and artificial appetites which sometimes cause us to repress our good instincts and lead us to wrongdoing

that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!

Ho solo due avversari - non dico due vincitori, perché li sottometto con la tenacia - la distanza e il tempo. Il terzo, ed è il più terribile, sta nella mia condizione di mortale. Ciò solo può fermarmi nella strada che percorro e prima che abbia conseguito lo scopo a cui miro. Tutto il resto l'ho calcolato.

You are forgetting the person who advised him.' 'Pah! If one were to be held to account for every remark one lets fall …' 'Yes, when it falls point downwards.

the faults of a father cannot revert upon his children.

if you wish to find the guilty party, first discover whose interests the crime serves!

Nothing passes the time, or shortens the path, like a thought which engrosses all the faculties of an individual's organization. Our external existence is a sleep, of which this thought is the dream; and while we are subjected to its influence, time has no longer any measure, nor is there any distance in space. We leave one place and arrive at another, and are conscious of nothing between.

Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.

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

If I were sole owner we'd shake hands on it now, my dear Dantes, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—'He who has a partner has a master.

The name of father is sacred in two senses; he should be reverenced as the author of our being and as a master whom we ought to obey.

par un de ces bonheurs inespérés qui arrivent parfois à ceux sur lesquels la rigueur du sort s'est longtemps lassée

Eh bien, quand je travaille, et je travaille nuit et jour, quand je travaille, il y a des moments où je ne me souviens plus, et quand je ne me souviens plus, je suis heureux à la manière des morts: mais cela vaut encore mieux que de souffrir.

les Italiennes ont du moins sur les Françaises l'avantage d'être fidèles à leur infidélité.

Les hommes vraiment généreux sont toujours prêts à devenir compatissants, lorsque le malheur de leur ennemi dépasse les limites de leur haine.

porque las oraciones para el hombre que es dichoso son a veces palabras vacías de sentido, hasta que el dolor viene a explicar al infortunio ese lenguaje sublime con que nos habla Dios.

Politikada, sevgili oÄŸlum, benim kadar siz de bilirsiniz ki insanlar yoktur, düÅŸünceler vard?r; duygular yoktur, ç?karlar vard?r; politikada bir adam öldürülmez, bir engel ortadan kald?r?l?r, iÅŸte hepsi bu.

Only a weak spirit sees everything from behind a dark veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.

Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l'intero avvenire.

Oh lavoro, lavoro! La mia passione, la mia gioia, la mia furia, a te spetta sfinire tutti i miei patimenti!

It was a stormy and dark night;

Thus, then, on the 20th of August, 1672, as we have already stated in the beginning of this chapter, the whole town was crowding towards the Buytenhof, to witness the departure of Cornelius de Witt from prison, as he was going to exile; and to see what traces the torture of the rack had left on the noble frame of the man who knew his Horace so well.

Albert, bien peu ont traversé ces révolutions au milieu desquelles nous sommes nés, sans que quelque tache de boue ou de sang ait souillé leur uniforme de soldat ou leur robe de juge. Albert