The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGOMen hate those to whom they have to lie.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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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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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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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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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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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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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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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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