Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
VICTOR HUGOThe soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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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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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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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Love is life, if it is not death.
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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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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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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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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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 power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
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