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Alfred de Vigny was a French poet born on March 27, 1797, and died on September 17, 1863. His poetry, deeply influenced by Romanticism, is known for its profound emotion and unique style.

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“Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.”

Men Mind Art Philosophy History Wall Limits Every Man

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“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 even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame”

Men Together Circumstances Fame Idiot Coincidence Manipulate Greatest Man

Author:Alfred de Vigny

“What is a great life if not a youthful idea executed by a man of mature years.”

Ifs Men Years Ideas Age Youth Mature

Author:Alfred de Vigny

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

Men War Next Existence Conflict Soldier Punishment Barbarism Capital Punishment

Author:Alfred de Vigny

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

Men Stories Born

Book:Cinq Mars (Complete)

Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)

“The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements. 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 individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity.”

Source: Cinq Mars

“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 individual lot of man.”

Men Humanity Individual Destiny Example Drama France

Book:Cinq Mars

Source: Cinq Mars

“I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.”

Thinking Men Firsts Facts Wanted Events Capacity Experience Sight Longing Satisfied Chains Ties Links Adaptation Chain Of Events

Book:Cinq Mars (Complete)

Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)

“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 surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.”

Men Given Nature Doubt Surround Fables

Book:Cinq Mars (Complete)

Source: Cinq Mars (Complete)

“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 visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.”

Men World Humans Ends Eye Lasts Race Stage Tragedy Unity Human Race Visible

Book:Cinq Mars

Source: Cinq Mars

About the Author

Born: March 27, 1797
Died: September 17, 1863
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 53

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