Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.
Alexandre DumasKitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill - I avenge myself. Do you hear?
Alexandre DumasAh," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
Alexandre DumasIt is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
Alexandre Dumas