For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Alexandre DumasMy son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember itโs by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Donโt be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice youโve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.
Alexandre DumasIt is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
Alexandre DumasI hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
Alexandre DumasI have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, โChild of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?โ I replied, โListen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.
Alexandre Dumas