Alexandre Dumas
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Biography
Alexandre Dumas, also known as Alexandre Dumas père, was a French novelist and playwright.
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."
"Nothing succeeds like success."
"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."
"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."
"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."
"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."
"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it."
"Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather."
"Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope."
"True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it."
"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."
"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."
"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."
"Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth."
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
"Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers."
"In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs."
"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."
"Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong."
"Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique."