Alexandre Dumas Quotes

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

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.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

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

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

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

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

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

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.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.

Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.