“The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Borgias

“dreamers--which the English call splash; Arabian poets gasgachau; and which we Frenchmen, who would be poets, can only translate by a paraphrase--the noise of water falling into water.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne

[HogwartsExpress]

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

[MiaJohn]

"We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude."

Alexandre Dumas,
The Count of Monte Cristo

[HogwartsExpress]

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

[HogwartsExpress]

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

[HogwartsExpress]

Pain, thou art not an evil
Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte cristo

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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A young girl must not be taken to the theatre, let us say it once for all. It is not only the drama which is immoral, but the place.

—Alexandre Dumas pere
TOPICS: WOMEN

[Governor3]

“It’s necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”

― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

—Alexandre Dumas pere
TOPICS: GOSSIP

“Great is the truth, fire can not burn, nor water can drown it!”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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It is only rarely 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 Dumas pere
TOPICS: WOMEN

“A man is always in a hurry to be happy.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

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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 pere
TOPICS: CONFIDENCE, YOUTH, DOUBT, UNCERTAINTY, FAILURE, SELF-DISCOVERY