Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. - Leo Tolstoy
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. - Leo Tolstoy
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. - Leo Tolstoy
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will. - Leo Tolstoy
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past. - Victor Hugo
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. - Victor Hugo
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. - Victor Hugo
Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander. - Victor Hugo
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? - Victor Hugo
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