Poetry Quote by Alexandre Dumas — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a coward, it is true, but he was about to die without resistance. Do you know what gave him strength? - do you know what consoled him? It was, that another partook of his punishment - that another partook of his anguish - that another was to die before him. Lead two sheep to the butcher's, two oxen to the slaughterhouse, and make one of them understand that his companion will not die; the sheep will bleat for pleasure, the ox will bellow with joy. But man - man, who God created in his own image - man, upon whom God has laid his first, his sole commandment, to love his neighbour - man, to whom God has given a voice to express his thoughts - what is his first cry when he hears his fellowman is saved? A blasphemy. Honour to man, this masterpiece of nature, this king of the creation!”

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

“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”

“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.”

“She found herself”

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes –”

“That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attempted”

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”

“the flames are silent,”

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”