"The events I sought were never as great……" — Alfred de Vigny
"The events I sought were never as great as I needed them to be."
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Alfred de Vigny
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42 Quotes by Alfred de Vigny
Alfred de Vigny has 42 quotes on this site.
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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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More Events Quotes
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
— Russell Baker
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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