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...

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
Alfred De Vigny

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
- Alfred De Vigny
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper a canvas a piece of marble or a few sounds
- 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 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
Alfred De Vigny