A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
VICTOR HUGOTeach 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.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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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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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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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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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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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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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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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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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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