"I put a Phrygian cap on the..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.”

“Many great actions are committed in small struggles.”

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

“The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.”

“Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.”

“A man who can speak two languages is worth two men.”

“The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“It is right to rebel against reactionaries.”