black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life is a storm, my young friend. 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.

Alexandre Dumas

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Fools Learning Oneself
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Difficult Person Position
In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Dangerous Love Point Wasted Time Writing
Remember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Betrayal Fake Remember Revenge
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Better Inspirational Love Man Woman
I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Came Condition Fight Myself
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Comparison Grief Happiness Misery Oneself State World
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Appearance Future Horizon Mindset Promise Way Weakness
And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude… I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Farewell Kindness Place Punish Revenge Reward Substitute
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Nice Sarcasm Savage Yourself
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Character Fact Faith Reason Understanding Willing
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Blossom Fruit Ripe Slow Watch Youth
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Accompany Allow Choke Excessive Expectation Love
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Bitter Blind Hate Rage Risk Task
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Carry Chain heavy Need
In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas – no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS

Feeling Ideas Kill Known Man Obstacle Politics Removal

Life is a storm, my young friend. 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Life is a storm, my young friend. 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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Alexandre Dumas Quotes