An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGOYou can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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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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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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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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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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