One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.
VH
Victor HugoHistoire d'un crime (1877)
About Victor Hugo
French novelist and poet, author of Les Misérables. (1802-1885)
More from Victor Hugo
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.Les Misérables (1862)
- Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.Thoughts, Postscriptum de ma vie, translated in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography (1907)
- Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.William Shakespeare (1864), Part I, Book II, ch. 4
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- If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?Rumi
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.Henry David Thoreau
- To be great is to be misunderstood.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The best is the enemy of the good.Voltaire
- It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.Voltaire
- I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.Friedrich Nietzsche
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