“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
More from Alexandre Dumas on Happiness
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”
“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.”
“Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…”
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