More Quotes by Alexandre Dumas
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.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
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.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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.
Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
