Alexandre Dumas d.Ä. Zitate

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„Es gibt weder Glück noch Unglück auf dieser Welt, es gibt nur eine Vergleichung eines Zustandes mit einem anderen und mehr nicht.“

„Alle für Einen, Einer für alle.“

„Alle für einen, einer für alle.“

„Alle menschliche Weisheit liegt in den zwei Worten »Harren und Hoffen!«“

„Das Kloster der Karmeliterinnen zu Bethune“

„Rochelle vertrieben.“

“… The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground… they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us…”

“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”

“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”

“Love is the most selfish of all the passions.”

“What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.”

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”

“Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”

“… remember that what has once been done may be done again.”

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”

“Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!”

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”

“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”

“I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.”

“How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it”

“If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.”

“D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself?
Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.”

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.”

“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”

“… but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”

“A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.”

“And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”

“So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.”

“Be kind, aim for my heart.”

“Haste is a poor counselor”

“There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”