Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."
Alexandre Dumas
"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."
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it"
Alexandre Dumas
"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 The Count of Monte Cristo
"“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”"
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
"“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”"
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
"“Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.”"
Alexandre Dumas The Count of Monte Cristo
"“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 The Count of Monte Cristo
"He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door."
Alexandre Dumas
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas
"Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works."
Alexandre Dumas
"Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."
Alexandre Dumas
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."
Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope."
Alexandre Dumas
"Business? It's quite simple it's other people's money."
Alexandre Dumas
"However anxious one is to reach one’s goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."
Alexandre Dumas
"At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it."It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly"
Alexandre Dumas
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope."
Alexandre Dumas
"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
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