God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
VICTOR HUGOLet us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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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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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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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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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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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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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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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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