Quotes from Alexandre Dumas

los pobres muchachos eran tan felices que sólo pensaban en sí mismos, y no tenían ojos más que para aquel hermoso cielo que los bendecía.

c'est qu'en amour chacun pour soi.»

The struggle had been going on same time, when suddenly one of the doors violently pushed open, and a young officer in the uniform of a cavalry captain jumped down, shutting the door as he did so though not too quickly for the nearest spectators to perceive a woman sitting at the back of the carriage. She was wrapped in cloak and veil, and judging by the precautions she, had taken to hide her face from every eye, she must have had her reasons for avoiding recognition.

el gozo para los corazones que han sufrido mucho tiempo es lo que el rocío para las tierras abrasadas por los ardores del sol; corazones y tierra absorben aquella lluvia bienhechora que cae sobre ellos y no se pierde una gota.

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow of eighteen or twenty, with black eyes, and hair as dark as a raven's wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle to contend with danger. Ah, is it you, Dantès?

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro, he ahí todo. Sólo el que ha experimentado el como del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema. Es preciso haber querido morir, amigo mío, para saber cuán buena y hermosa es la vida.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Vos sois hijo mío, Dantés! —exclamó el anciano—. Sois el hijo de mi prisión. Mi estado me condenaba al celibato, y Dios os envió a mí para consuelo juntamente del hombre que no podía ser padre, y del preso que no podía ser libre.

No, my life has been passed in frivolity; I wish to forget it myself.

Someday, when the world is much older, and when mankind will be masters of all the destructive powers in nature, to serve for the general good of humanity; when mankind, as you were just saying, have discovered the secrets of death, then that death will become as sweet and voluptuous as a slumber in the arms of your beloved.

Só aquele que experimentou o extremo infortúnio se encontra apto a experimentar a extrema felicidade. É necessário ter querido morrer, ...para saber como é bom viver.

However good-hearted one is, you understand, one eventually stops seeing people who depress you, so in the end Old Dantes was all alone.

Hasta el día en el que dios se digne descifrar el porvenir al hombre, toda sabiduría humana estará resumida en dos palabras: Confiar y Esperar.

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.

Time, which encrusts all physical substances with its mossy mantle, as it invests all things of the mind with forgetfulness, seemed to have respected these signs, which apparently had been made with some degree of regularity, and probably with a definite purpose

If a man had tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the man who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?

In those times panics were common

Then he said aloud: "Listen, Morrel, I see your grief is great, but still you do not like to risk your soul." Morrel smiled sadly. "Count," he said, "I swear to you my soul is no longer my own.

those who remain in Paris in July must be true Parisians.

Aprender no es saber: de aquí nacen los eruditos y los sabios: la memoria hace a los unos, y la filosofía a los otros.

I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom, murmured Athos;

Une illusion de moins, c'est une vérité de plus.

The demon which had whispered this idea to him would not leave him, buzzing in his ear with that persistence which rapidly ensures that some doubts, by the sole force of reasoning, become certainties.

Se puso Dantés de pie, y mirando hacia donde el barco parecía dirigirse, distinguió en la oscuridad, a cien toesas, la negra y descarnada roca en que campea como una esfinge el sombrío castillo de If.