Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”

“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”

“Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.”

“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.”

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”

“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”

“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”

“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”

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.”

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