Alfred de Vigny quote: To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring ...

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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