Quotes by Alexandre Dumas

“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.”

“A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.”

“The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”

“Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.”

“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”

“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”

“God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.”

“True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.”

“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope.”

“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”

“Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.”

“Haste is a poor counselor”