Alexandre Dumas Top 10 Quotes


10

Men's minds are raised to the level of the women with whom they associate.

Alexandre Dumas (My Memoirs)

9

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845-1846)

8

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 (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845-1846)

7

To learn is not to know; there are learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845-1846)

6

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, 1844)

5

It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845-1846)

4

All for one and one for all. 

Alexandre Dumas (The Three Musketeers, 1844)

3

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

Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845-1846)

2

One's work may be finished some day, but one's education never.

Alexandre Dumas (My Memoirs)

1

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.There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo, 1845-1846)

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Alexandre Dumas Biography

Born: July 24, 1802
Died: December 5, 1870

Alexandre Dumas was a French writer. He is mostly recognized for his historical novels. He is also one of the most widely read French authors in the world.

Notable Works

The Three Musketeers (1844)
The Count of Monte Cristo
(1845 - 1846)
The Man in the Iron Mask
(1847)
The Memoirs of a Physician (1846-1848)
Black Tulip (1850)
Storming the Bastille or Six Years Later (1853)
My Memoirs
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