Alexandre Dumas — "There are no friends at cards or world affairs."

"Happiness is like a ball; we run after it while it is rolling, and we kick it when it stops."

"Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had pr…"

"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness…"

"The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising."

"I am not a man, I am a river."