Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGOConscience is God present in man.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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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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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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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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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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