You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
VICTOR HUGOIt is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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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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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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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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If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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