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Men Quotes by Alfred de Vigny
- What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.
- The existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
- On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.
- France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the…
- I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and…
- From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which…
- The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be…
- 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…
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