Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGONot being heard is no reason for silence.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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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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Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
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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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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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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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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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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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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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