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.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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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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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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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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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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