Victor Hugo. The man who laughs (№ 457590)

Justifying himself, the envious person mixes his personal grievances with social evil. All kinds of evil passions boil violently in a bloodthirsty heart. Fifteenth-century maps depicted a large unnamed space in the corner, on which were inscribed three words: Hie sunt leones [here are the lions]. There are similar unexplored areas in the human soul. Somewhere inside us passions are agitated and seething, and about this dark corner of our soul we can also say: “Hie sunt leones.”