Alfred de Vigny Quote

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.


Stello (1832)


To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those...

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those...