Victor Hugo Quotes

Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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Children Education Happiness Inspirational Price Rich Value
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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Education Ignorance Produce Society Teaching
A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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Convict Crime Crown Suit
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Army Ideas Strength Time
To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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Die Horrible Lack Love Soul
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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Conviction Greatness Happiness Life Love Ourselves Spite Valentine
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Business Creation Dreams Future One Liner
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Business Motivational One Liner Right
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Children Deep Happiness Men Misery Old
Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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God Hurt Listen Love Money Watch Work World
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Mask One Liner Veil Vice Virtue
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Darkness Diamond Earth Finding Mind Truth
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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Future Ideal Impossible Weak
To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Face God Love One Liner Person
The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Bird Body Cage Certain Help Moments Raise Soul Substain
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Book Fire Learning Light Reading Spark
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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Break Up Broken Heart Die Live Love Suffering
Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Deep Imagination People Perfection Permit
He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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Book Cool Food Friendship Sure
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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Human Love Magnet Palnt Sensitive Stone
Love is life, if it is not death.
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Death Life Love One Liner
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Adersity Men Monster One Liner Prosperity
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Enrich Giving Heart Mind Receive
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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Future Inspirational Progress Revolution Understand
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Enrich Giving Heart Mind Receive
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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Future Inspirational Progress Revolution Understand
Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Happiness Melancholy One Liner Pain Sad

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