Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.
ALEXANDRE DUMASOften we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
More Alexandre Dumas Quotes
-
-
Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
We’ll go where the air is pure, where all sounds are soothing, where, no matter how proud one may be, one feels humble and finds oneself small- in short, we’ll go to the sea. I love the sea as one loves a mistress and I long for her when I haven’t seen her for some time
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
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.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
It is only the dead who do not return.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
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 -
True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS -
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS