Quote by: 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


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Author Bio


  • NameAlfred de Vigny
  • DescriptionFrench poet, playwright, and novelist
  • AliasesAlfred Victor de Vigny
  • BornMarch 27, 1797
  • DiedSeptember 17, 1863
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionWriter; Playwright; Poet; Novelist