Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
VICTOR HUGOVirtue has a veil, vice a mask.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
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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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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 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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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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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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