Men hate those to whom they have to lie.
VICTOR HUGOWhat makes night within us may leave stars.
More Victor Hugo Quotes
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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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You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
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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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The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
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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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Wisdom is the health of the soul.
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Reality in strong doses frightens.
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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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During a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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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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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.
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There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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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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Life’s great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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People do not lack strength, they lack will.
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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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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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