in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! Alexandre Dumas More Quotes by Alexandre Dumas More Quotes From Alexandre Dumas 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. Alexandre Dumas grief feelings happiness 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. Alexandre Dumas young-friends rocks men For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence. Alexandre Dumas silence evil two 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 Alexandre Dumas understanding philosophy memories 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 sight forever two All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall. Alexandre Dumas musketeers unity fall How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. Alexandre Dumas stupid education children One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never. Alexandre Dumas teaching education math Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. Alexandre Dumas sad feelings men 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. Alexandre Dumas accompany-us heart may A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. Alexandre Dumas failure doubt men 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. Alexandre Dumas love men life Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy. Alexandre Dumas sacred women love-is Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas spiritual love life The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates. Alexandre Dumas treason differences matter 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. Alexandre Dumas ocean real happiness Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Alexandre Dumas fairy-stories fighting happiness ...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all. Alexandre Dumas stars darkness night 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. Alexandre Dumas distance dream sleep I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol. Alexandre Dumas ink bottles paper
