Alexandre DumasThinkers

Antiquity is the aristocracy of history.

Brotherhood is all for one and one for all.

Business is others people's money.

Business is quite simple this: other people's money.

Duty is what you ask from other people.

Economy is the wealth of the poor and the wisdom of the rich.

The Generalization is always dangerous, even this one.

Gratitude is sometimes impossible — there are some services so great that they can only be repaid by ingratitude.

History is but the nail on which the picture hangs.

Life is a chaplet of little miseries, which the philosopher unstrings with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, gentlemen; sit down to the table and let us drink; nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

Marriage is a heavy chain that needs two to carry, and sometimes three.