What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
VICTOR HUGOThe learned man knows that he is ignorant.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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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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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
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Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
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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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Conscience is God present in man.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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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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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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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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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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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