A Quote by Victor Hugo

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.

Victor Hugo

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Alexander Babylon Bears Behind Caesar Follows Form He Man His Jerusalem Leaves Man Rome Shadow Tyranny Tyrant Violated Woe

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Victor Hugo
French - Novelist
February 26, 1802 - May 22, 1885

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Mitt Romney

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Will Smith

In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.

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It's not what you know, and it's not even who you know. It's how much knowledge you give away. Hoarding knowledge diminishes your power because it diminishes your presence.

David Weinberger

My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

Igor Stravinsky

Sadness diminishes a man's powers

Baruch Spinoza

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind.

William Blackstone

To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

Blaise Pascal

Lustre of man walking proud beneath the sky diminishes to nothing and goes unregarded.

Aeschylus

The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit of mind becomes that of a commander who has lost a decisive and calamitous battle. He quite trusts himself thereafter.

H. L. Mencken

That which serves our spirits enhances our bodies. That which diminishes our spirits diminishes our bodies.

Caroline Myss

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Michael Dirda

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.