To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. - Alfred De Vigny
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
- Alfred De Vigny
Only silence is great; all else is weakness. - Alfred De Vigny
Only silence is great; all else is weakness.
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the l… - Alfred De Vigny
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the l…
Invisible is real. Souls have their own world. - Alfred De Vigny
Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind. - Alfred De Vigny
Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. - Alfred De Vigny
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus.
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be. - Alfred De Vigny
The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be.
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil? - Alfred De Vigny
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
History is a novel for which the people is the author. - Alfred De Vigny
History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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