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"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does."
"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."
"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."
"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."
Explore more quotes by Alfred de Vigny
"Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?"
"Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?"
"France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man."
"From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own."
"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."
"What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete."
"But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity."
"Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever."
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