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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. - Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. – Victor Hugo

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Society
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. – Victor Hugo

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Age
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. – Victor Hugo

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Culture makes all men gentle. – Menander

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Ive found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them. – Marilyn Monroe

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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life. – Robert Casey

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They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. – John Morley

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Everyone thinks theyre going to write one book of poems or one novel. – Marilyn Hacker

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No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses. – Vladimir Lenin

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