Alexandre Dumas Quotes

“What I most loved after you, Mercedes, was myself, my dignity, and that strength which rendered me superior to other men; that strength was my life.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“You who are in power have only the means that money produces—we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:power money

“the friends that we have lost do not repose in the bosom of the earth, but are buried deep in our hearts, and it has been thus ordained that we may always be accompanied by them.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:friendship loss

“I know the world is a drawing-room, from which we must retire politely and honestly; that is, with a bow, and our debts of honor paid.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:world

“There are some situations which men understand by instinct, but which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:reason sorrow

“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:writing

“Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that 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.'”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:hope living waiting

“The heart breaks when, after having been elated by flattering hopes, it sees all its illusions destroyed.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:hope

“At your age we have faith in life; it is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

topic:hope youth faith

“Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since consequently there is twice as much courage in fighting.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

topic:courage

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