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.
Alexandre DumasLearning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
Alexandre DumasIn politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas โ no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
Alexandre DumasFor the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Alexandre DumasWhy, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? โ do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?
Alexandre Dumas