No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGOIntelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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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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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
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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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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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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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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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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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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.
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