If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOLet us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
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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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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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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
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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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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Inspiration and genius – one and the same.
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There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.
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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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To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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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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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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Love is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
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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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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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