Tao Te Ching

“Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? No! Why? Because of Wellington? No! Because of God! It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!”

— Victor Hugo 1802 – 1885 CE
Literary pioneer, poet, and social justice provocateur
from The Battle of Waterloo, 1878