"To love beauty is to see light."
"Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."
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Source: Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult
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