Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGOMen hate those to whom they have to lie.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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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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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
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Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
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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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What makes night within us may leave stars.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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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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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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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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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
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