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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
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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