"Waterloo is a battle of the first..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.”

“It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.”

“There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.”

“History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across which it could reach the frontiers of the state which it desires to attack. Usually, the aggressive state finds that frontier.”

“We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.”

“I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.”

“Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.”

“Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.”

“And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside.”