Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGODoing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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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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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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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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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.
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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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To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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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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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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