"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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God
More From Victor Hugo
- "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come."
- "What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
- "I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, – and the stars through his soul."
More In God
- "Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me."― Elvis Presley
- "I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it."― Karl Lagerfeld
- "White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."― Gilbert K. Chesterton