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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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Only silence is great all else is weakness.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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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
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