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


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...remember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
На този свят няма нито щастие, нито нещастие, има само с...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Luego, dirigiendo una postrer mirada sobre aquel apuesto joven, que tendría lo más veinticinco añ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy. [Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE
While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde, And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse, There music...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE
Nothing succeeds like success. [Fr., Rien ne reussit comme le succes.]
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE
It is high time that the ideal of success should be replaced by the ideal of service.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE
The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
Be nice to people on your way up because you might meet 'em on your way down.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the gar...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-e...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
No matter how long I live, I shall live longer than you will love me
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
Everything was believed except the truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the ear...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
I gave myself to you sooner than I ever did to any man, I swear to you; and do you know why? Because...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
It is often woman who inspires us with the great things that she prevents us from accomplishing
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does ...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PèRE
Le vin est la gaieté, dit-on ; comment cet océan de vin qui submerge la commune de Bercy n’égay...
PAUL FéVAL PèRE
The boldness of his mind was sheathed in a scabbard of politeness.
DUMAS MALONE
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as n...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it -- and sometimes three.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
All for one, one for all, that is our device.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
ALEXANDER DUMAS
In Paris today, millions of pounds of bread are sold daily, made during the previous night by those ...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are th...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
The downside of it is that there's not the security of a regular job, and you don't always have that...
ANN DUMAS