A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGOVirtue has a veil, vice a mask.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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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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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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Freedom begins where it ends ignorance.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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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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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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