"Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Morality is truth in full bloom.”

“I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.”

“Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.”

“If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.”

“Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.”

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”

“Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.”

“The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.”

“Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.”