Alexandre Dumas

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

There is no man who has not at some time in his life wished for the power of invisibility.

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

It is only a man who has lost everything that can appreciate a new beginning.

Man is an enigma, and he can only be solved by himself.

One day, when I am old, I shall sit by the fire and remember that I have been happy.

Nothing is so intoxicating as the first taste of freedom.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

A man's character is his destiny.

There are no friends at cards or world affairs.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

A man who has no illusions is the most disillusioned of all.

There are some misfortunes which are so great that we dare not think of them, and yet we must never lose sight of them.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.

The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground... they are buried deep in our hearts.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words: Wait and hope.

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.

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

As a general rule… people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

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.