All human wisdom is contained in these two words. Wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas quotes

1. I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. ― Alexandre Dumas

2. All human wisdom is contained in these two words. Wait and hope. ― Alexandre Dumas

3. Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures. ― Alexandre Dumas

4. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons:

We must fight in order to conquer it. ― Alexandre Dumas

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. ― Alexandre Dumas

5. It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. ― Alexandre Dumas 

6. We are always in a hurry to be happy…; for when we have suffered a long time,

we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune. ― Alexandre Dumas

7. 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. ― Alexandre Dumas

8. As a general rule…people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it. ― Alexandre Dumas

9. One’s work may be finished someday, but one’s education never. ― Alexandre Dumas

10. True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it. ― Alexandre Dumas 

11. Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it. ― Alexandre Dumas

12. 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.

You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome.

Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you. ― Alexandre Dumas

13. What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men.

That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die. ― Alexandre Dumas

14. Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth. ― Alexandre Dumas

15. 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

16. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. ― Alexandre Dumas

17. It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud.

The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising. ― Alexandre Dumas

18. To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. ― Alexandre Dumas

19. So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts. ― Alexandre Dumas

20. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.  ― Mahatma Gandhi 

21. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ― Oscar Wilde

22. Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence. ― Pythagoras

23. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ― Thomas A. Edison

24. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ― Muhammad Ali

25. Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear. ― Paulo Coelho