Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
From Victor Hugo
Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
Despotism is a long crime.
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
To think of shadows is a serious thing.
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