When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
VICTOR HUGODuring a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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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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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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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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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
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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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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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