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
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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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Observe this fact in the history of mankind every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by setting up the executioner at his right hand like a guardian angel
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