It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
VICTOR HUGODoing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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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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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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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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