A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
Alexandre DumasIt is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
Alexandre DumasI have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
Alexandre DumasAthos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. "In general, people only ask for advice," he said "that they may not follow it or if they should follow it that they may have somebody to blame for having given it".
Alexandre Dumas