Alexandre Dumas Quotes

“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...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:happiness wealth

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth; it is like the golden cloud in which the Messiah went up into heaven.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:truth science philosophy

“For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:time silence

“Are there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness?—why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections—an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places—which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:time memory present

“the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:freedom action

“I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and...”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:freedom independence

“God is always the last resource.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:God hope

“God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:God judgement

“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.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:heart pain

“lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:heart talking feelings

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