Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMASPhilosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
ALEXANDRE DUMASGod is always the last resource.
ALEXANDRE DUMASJoy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIt is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
ALEXANDRE DUMASTo learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
ALEXANDRE DUMASUnfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
ALEXANDRE DUMASWoman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
ALEXANDRE DUMASI have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
ALEXANDRE DUMASIn love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.
ALEXANDRE DUMASRemember that what has once been done may be done again.
ALEXANDRE DUMASLife 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 DUMASHow did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
ALEXANDRE DUMASAre there not some places where we seem to breathe sadness? – why, we cannot tell. It is a chain of recollections – an idea which carries you back to other times, to other places – which, very likely, have no connection with the present time and place.
ALEXANDRE DUMASHe who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
ALEXANDRE DUMASThe merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
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