The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
VICTOR HUGOWe pardon to the extent that we love.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
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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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Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
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I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.
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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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Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
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The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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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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