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Nothing succeeds like success.
From Ange Pitou, Volume 1
Topic: Success
Alexandre Dumas
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There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Alexandre Dumas
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Death
Alexandre Dumas
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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
Topic: Education, Funny
Alexandre Dumas
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Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Hope
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness, Life
Alexandre Dumas
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That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Death
Alexandre Dumas
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Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
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Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Religion
Alexandre Dumas
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Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.
In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Death, Life
Alexandre Dumas
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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
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Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Hope
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
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I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
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He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
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Nothing succeeds like success.
From Ange Pitou, Volume 1
Topic: Success
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Alexandre Dumas
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Death
Alexandre Dumas
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True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
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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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
Topic: Education, Funny
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Hope
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness, Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Death
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Religion
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.
In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Death, Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Hope
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Nothing succeeds like success.
From Ange Pitou, Volume 1
Topic: Success
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Death
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it
Topic: Education, Funny
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Hope
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness, Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Death
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Love
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Three Musketeers
Topic: Religion
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution.
In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Death, Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Hope
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
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.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Life
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Philosophical
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas
NOT YET RATED▼
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
From The Count of Monte Cristo
Topic: Happiness
Alexandre Dumas