Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal. – 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
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings. – Victor Hugo
Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo