33 Alexandre Dumas Quotes About Love (HOPE)

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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… that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”
Alexandre Dumas

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. — **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**.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. — All human **wisdom** is summed up in two words; wait and **hope**.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. — I am not proud, but I am happy; and **happiness** blinds, I think, more than pride.

Life is a storm... 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. — **Life** is a storm… 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.

“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.’”
Alexandre Dumas

It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. — It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. — For all evils there are two remedies – **time** and silence.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. — Pure **love** and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

8 Wise Alexandre Dumas Quotes that Will Make You Think (WISDOM)

“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

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. — Never **fear** quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

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. — 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.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.

The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.

6 Alexandre Dumas Quotes About Life

“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.”
Alexandre Dumas

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it. — Often we pass beside **happiness** without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

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. — 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.

“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.”
Alexandre Dumas

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever. — There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another... — Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another…

5 Alexandre Dumas Quotes on Business and Success

“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 failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.”
Alexandre Dumas