El July 24, 1802 was born Alexandre Dumas and 22 years later, a July 27 also, was born your son also Alejandro. They are possibly the Alexandros most famous of France and undoubtedly two of the most popular writers of all time, especially the father.

There will still be some inhabitant of this planet who has not read a book of yours. But surely it is impossible that there is someone who has not seen one movie based on his novels. And if there is someone who has not heard of those books there, it is that without a doubt they are not from this world. Prolific and synonymous with timeless adventures or stories of sublime and tragic love. The Dumas they are insurmountable and, by law, one of his books should be read or re-read every year. Let's stay with some of his phrases.

Alexander Dumas father

• All for one, one for all.
• Madmen and heroes, two kinds of morons who look a lot alike.
• The loved ones we lose do not rest underground, but we carry them in our hearts.
• There are two looks: The look of the body can sometimes forget, but that of the soul always remembers.
• In general, advice is not asked for other than not to follow it; or, if they are followed, it is to have someone who can be blamed for having given them.
• A rascal does not laugh in the same way as an honest man, a hypocrite does not cry with tears as a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask, and no matter how well the mask is made, one can always, with a little attention, distinguish it from the face.
• Silence is the last joy of the unfortunate; beware of putting someone, whoever he may be, on the trail of your sorrows; the curious soak our tears like flies draw blood from a wounded deer.
• There will always be lips that say one thing while the heart thinks another.
• My kingdom is as big as the world, because I am not Italian, nor French, nor Indian, nor American, nor Spanish; I am cosmopolitan.
• Every evil has two remedies; time and silence.
• Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are hidden, but they do not close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain alive and open in the heart.
• The most curious thing in life is the spectacle of death.
• Only he who has known the extreme of misfortune can feel the supreme happiness. It is necessary to have wanted to die, to know how sweet life is.

Alexander Dumas son

• The heart is the last thing that comes off the earth and memory the last thing that comes off the heart.
• I prefer the wicked to the imbeciles, because those, at least, leave some breathing space.
• For the woman whom education has not taught well, God almost always opens two paths that lead her back, which are pain and love.
• The art needs solitude, misery or passion. It is a rock flower that needs rough wind and rough terrain.
• It would be useless for the world to grow old if it weren't for mending itself.
• Money is the only power that is never discussed.
• Anything that can be easily replaced can be more easily abandoned.
• I am neither rich enough to love you the way I want to nor poor enough to love you the way you want.
• How many roads the heart takes and how many reasons it finds to get to what it wants!
• The answers one eagerly awaits always come when one is not at home.
• Young people always sacrifice sincere affections in favor of doubtful affections.
• How mean and quick is a man when one of his miserable passions feels wounded!
• Treaties cannot always be executed on the day they are signed.
• Can you see something sadder than the old age of vice, especially in women?
• You have always had a childhood, no matter what you have become.
• How sweet it is to be persuaded by a beloved voice!