Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger and greater, who were more determined for good or for evil that does us good.
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Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever.Alfred de Vigny
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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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.
Alfred de Vigny
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergone the double composition of public opinion and of the author, their history reaches us at third hand and is thus separated by two stages from the original fact.
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Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
Alfred de Vigny
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
Alfred de Vigny
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