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Only silence is great all else is weakness.

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
Silence
Else
Great
Weakness

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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 late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.
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The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas.
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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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The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives
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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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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?
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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 love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.
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Invisible is real. Souls have their own world.
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
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The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
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History is a novel for which the people is the author.
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What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
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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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One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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