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.
VICTOR HUGOInitiative is doing the right thing without being told.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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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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Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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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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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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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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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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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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