More Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
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.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
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.
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.
