Blog Posts - Alexandre Dumas

Jules Verne photo: pinterestMany authors of science fiction novels have provided some invention or how time will change our society. Few, however, were visionaries such as Jules Verne, the writer who has brightened our childhood with his novels of ad...

Montecristo Island became famous after he described Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Mysterious Island (1961 film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mysterious Island is a 1961 science fiction adventure film about civil war prisoners who...

Montecristo Island became famous after he described Dumas novel The Count of Monte Cristo. Mysterious Island (1961 film) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mysterious Island is a 1961 science fiction adventure film about civil war prisoners who...

Is there anything better than a great adventure novel? Here are ten (plus a few extra recommendations) to add to your summer reading list. I’ve tried to include a broad range, from classics to recently published and encompassing a range … Con...

La Historia Compartida…Por César del Campo de Acuña Sean bienvenidos una vez más a La Historia Compartida, la sección de www.cincodays.com dedicada a las breves biografías de las más variopintas personalidades de la historia. En esta nueva, y...

Passion blinds the most correct minds.  The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

What is the use of time, encouragements, medals, crosses, and Monthyon prizes, if they do not lead society towards perfection. Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy, like God; he does know hot to destroy, and that is hal...

In the eyes of the world a large fortune covers all defects. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

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 estimate the value of a clear and...

Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after having watched its silent growth, is permitted to call it his own. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

Pretend to think well of yourself and the world will think well of you. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas   Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

To save a man, to spare a father`s feelings or a mother`s sensibility, is not to do a good action but a simple deed of humanity. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

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Great criminals bear about them a kind of predestination which makes them surmount all obstacles, which makes them escape all dangers, till the moment which a wearied Providence has marked as the rock of their impious fortunes. The three Musketeers b...

Beware !  Revenge is an awkward passion to indulge in; they who employ it find it a double-edged weapon, which, in the recoil, frequently wounds the hand that wields it. The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the same sort of tears as fall from the eyes of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask, and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we...

Nothing makes time pass more quickly or more shortens a journey than a thought which absorbs in itself all the faculties of the organisation of him who thinks. The external existence then resembles a sleep of which this thought is the dream. By its i...

We must never look for discretion in first love. First love is accompanied by such excessive joy, that unless this joy be allowed to overflow, it will stifle you. The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

Love is the most selfish of all the passions. The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

Bravery is always respected, even in an enemy. The three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas Filed under: Alexandre Dumas...

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