Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGOYou ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
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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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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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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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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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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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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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