Alexandre Dumas Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. 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 failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

2. Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope. The Count of Monte Cristo

3. Do not give me more credit than I deserve, and you will never have to revise your first impression of me. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I

4. Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.

5. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. The Count of Monte Cristo

6. How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

7. I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride. The Count of Monte Cristo

8. 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. The Count of Monte Cristo

9. Love is the most selfish of all the passions. Les Trois Mousquetaires | The Three Musketeers

10. Non vi sono né felicità né infelicità assolute in questo mondo, vi è soltanto il paragone tra una condizione e l'altra, ecco tutto. Solo colui che ha provato l'estremo dolore è atto a gustare la più grande felicità. The Count of Monte Cristo

11. Nothing succeeds like success. Ange Pitou

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

13. The merit of all things lies in their difficulty. Les Trois Mousquetaires | The Three Musketeers

14. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

15. Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather. The Count of Monte Cristo

16. True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

17. Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. The Count of Monte Cristo

18. I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute. Les Trois Mousquetaires | The Three Musketeers

19. Il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s'apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises au génie qui les applique.

20. Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. The Count of Monte Cristo

21. Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance. Les Trois Mousquetaires | The Three Musketeers

22. Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt. The Count of Monte Cristo

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

24. There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

25. To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. The Count of Monte Cristo

26. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance. The Count of Monte Cristo

27. Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope. The Count of Monte Cristo