If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGODon’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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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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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends.
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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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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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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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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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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
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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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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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Those who do not weep, do not see.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
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