"Perform your long and heavy task with energy,……" — Alfred de Vigny
"Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you."
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Alfred de Vigny
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42 Quotes by Alfred de Vigny
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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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Silence alone is great; all else is feebleness . . . Perform with all your heart your long and heavy…
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An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.
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What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
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The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot…
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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals…
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I love the majesty of human suffering.
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On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
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We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as…
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