"Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers." ― Victor Hugo Topic(s): Beauty Tags: beauty, great, perils More From Victor Hugo "Wisdom is a sacred communion." "Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time." "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." More In Beauty "All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."― Samuel Johnson "For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places."― David Rittenhouse "Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty."― Honore de Balzac