18 Quotes by Alexandre Dumas fils

Since “there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance,” let us give joy to heaven. Heaven will render it back to us with usury.

The material world coexists alongside the ideal life, and the purest intentions are bound to the earth by ridiculous threads, but they are threads of iron and they are not easily broken.

I dreamed incredible dreams of the future; I said to myself that she should owe to me her moral and physical recovery, that I should spend my whole life with her, and that her love should make me happier than all the maidenly loves in the world.

How many ways does the heart take, how many reasons does it invent for itself, in order to arrive at what it wants!

I shall never be myself again until I have seen Marguerite. It is perhaps the thirst of the fever, a sleepless night’s dream, a moment’s delirium; but though I were to become a Trappist, like M. de Rance’, after having seen her, I will see her.

¿Por qué habríamos de ser más severos que Cristo? ¿Por qué, ateniéndonos obstinadamente a las opiniones de este mundo que se cree duro para que lo crean fuerte, rechazaríamos con él a las almas que sangran a veces por heridas de las cuales, como la sangre mala de un enfermo, sale el mal de su pasado, y que solo esperan que una mano amiga las cuide y les devuelva la convalecencia del corazón?

Me volvería loco no sólo si no me amara, sino también si no me permitiera amarla

What distresses me is to see that human genius has limitations, and human stupidity has none.

Tình yêu đích thực bao giờ cũng nâng cao con người, dù người đàn bà khơi gợi tình yêu đó có thể nào chăng nữa.