Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
VICTOR HUGOA man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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