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.
VICTOR HUGOTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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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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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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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.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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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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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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