Victor Hugo Quotes
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Envy is an insult to oneself.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.
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I just recently realized. It's very strange. But doing fight scenes with Kate [Beckinsale], I was little bit more cautious. You can go harder with a guy, which I don't mean as an insult.
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It's not a face, but a personal insult.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge.
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Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.
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Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?
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It would be easier for the Devil to go to church and cross himself with holy water than for these people to comprehend the ideas which are accepted facts to us today.
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Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes.
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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
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This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
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The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.
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You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.
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We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
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Why should we not go to the extremes if we desire to play a part in the great world drama?...to go to the extremes is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness. Weakness is to compromise, to hesitate, to be halfhearted.
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The bourgeois intellectual neither fights nor works.
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Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
