Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. – Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past. – Victor Hugo
Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo