Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGOWhat 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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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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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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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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