The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
VICTOR HUGONot seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Toleration is the best religion.
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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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Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
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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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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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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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Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. I shall feel it.
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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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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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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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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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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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