Alexandre Dumas
“Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.”
“My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.”
“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God.”
“You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances.”
“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
“Cherchez la femme!”
“Nothing succeeds like success.”
“A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
“Wait and hope.”
“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next.”
“All for one and one for all.”