Guardian angel Quote by Alfred de Vigny

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

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

— Alfred de Vigny

The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.

— Alfred de Vigny

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

The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.

— Alfred de Vigny

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

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

“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

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

— Alfred de Vigny

“One is always a good master when one isn’t the master”

— Alfred de Vigny

Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.

— Alfred de Vigny

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

— Alfred de Vigny