What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity? — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but,… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
“We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
Hope is the greatest madness. What can we expect of a world that we enter with the assurance of seeing our fathers and mothers… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share
