Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
Alexandre DumasI have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
Alexandre DumasTo learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
Alexandre DumasSo heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
Alexandre DumasEvery individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms
Alexandre DumasThere is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.
Alexandre Dumas