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 VignyOf what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
Alfred de VignyPerform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
Alfred de Vigny