"You preserve your shame but you kill..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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“My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!”
“The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.”
“A wedding is not house-keeping.”
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“For my part, I may speak it to my shame,I have a truant been to chivalry;And so I hear he doth account me too.”
“What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.”
“The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.”
More on Glory
“Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes”
“What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!”
“....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.”