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“Il nous faut de l'audace, encore de l'audace, toujours de l'audace!"

(We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring!)

[Assemblée legislative, Paris; Sept. 2, 1792]”
― Georges Jacques Danton

“The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future. That eternally returning spector, the past, not infrequently falsifies its passport.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace