Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
VICTOR HUGOHe who opens a school door, closes a prison.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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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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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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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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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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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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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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The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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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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Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
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A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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