The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGOChange your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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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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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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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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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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
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