#cristo

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. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you: as Albert Mondego, the man! ↗

— Alexandre Dumas père

#life

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#father #god #judge #justice #religion

My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#science

I don't need an invitation to step over your threshold. -Cristophe ↗

— Lili St. Crow

#humor #lili-st-crow #strange-angels #humor

Non ti fidare mai di chi dice di servire Dio. Ti parleranno con serenità e buone parole, così colte che non riuscirai a capire. Cercheranno di convincerti con argomentazioni che solo loro sanno imbastire per catturare la tua ragione e la tua coscienza. Ti si presenteranno come uomini buoni e affermeranno di volerci salvare dal male e dalla tentazione, ma in realtà la loro opinione sul nostro conto è scritta e tutti loro, come i soldati di Cristo che sono, seguono fedelmente quanto trovano nei libri. Le loro parole sono scuse e le loro ragioni identiche a quelle che tu potresti dare a un moccioso. ↗

— Idelfonso Falcones

#cristo #dio #religione #religion

misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#men

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

#experience

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#relationship #sorrow #sympathy #the-count-of-monte-cristo #men

The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#murder #politics #the-count-of-monte-cristo #men

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#good-deeds #gratitude #integrity #the-count-of-monte-cristo #gratitude