Tuesday, 24 July 2018

24 July: Alexandre Dumas Quotes

10 quotes from someone born on this date in 1802: Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright, whose works include The Man in the Iron Mask, The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo.

  1. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
  2. Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives and remembering what one receives.
  3. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
  4. For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
  5. There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
  6. One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
  7. Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
  8. All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
  9. 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.
  10. Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.


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