Quotes from Alexander Dumas

Look, Fernand, your eyes are better than mine. I believe I see double. You know wine is a deceiver; but I should say it was two lovers walking side by side, and hand in hand. Heaven forgive me, they do not know that we can see them, and they are actually embracing!

thoughtlessness is a bad advisor.

What would be my power over you, when revealing my secrets towards you, especially when discovering yours?

Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you.

The paths of which you were just speaking have been traced by all young men of ardent imaginations. Besides the pleasure there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you?

Good Heaven! That is enough to drive away all my pains; I could mount him with thirty balls in my body. On my soul, handsome stirrups!

happiness blinds man more than arrogance

Man does not steal, he conquers

A man is always in a hurry when he wants to be happy.

the Spaniards think, and the French think up.

when the man would be responsible for everything he speaks in vain. -He's responsible when that, which he speaks in vain, causes a misfortune.

There are no people in politics, only the ideas. There're no feelings, but only interests. In politics one does not kill a man, but removes an obstacle.

My present fortune is a compensation for my former misfortune.

He took with him into private life his enemies and his wounds, the only profits that generally accrue to honest people who are guilty of having worked for their country rather than for themselves.

Ideas never die, but they just sometimes fall into a dream, only to be awaken much stronger than they were when asleep

In businesses, sir, there are no friends, only associates.

I've put myself in the place of Providence to reward the good ones... and now let the god of vengeance grant me it's place to punish the wicked!

In uncertainty there's still hope.

Be prudent like Nestor and cunning like Odysseus.

Death is always death, that is oblivion, resting, absence of life, as well as pain.

let's enjoy in the present and don't paint the future with dark colors

Death, just like life, has it's secret pains and lust. All in that to know them.

when man travels, he travels so he can learn something; when he changes places, he does so he can see something.

The shortest madnesses are the best...