A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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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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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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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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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in – what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.
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