Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWoman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPhilosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow – so arbitrary are these transient laws.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
ALEXANDRE DUMASSo rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThere are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body’s sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod is always the last resource.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
ALEXANDRE DUMASFor there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
ALEXANDRE DUMASYou who are in power have only the means that money produces – we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
ALEXANDRE DUMASMoral 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 DUMASIn every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
ALEXANDRE DUMASAh, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOn what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
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