Victor Hugo Quotes
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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.
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Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.
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Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.
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A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.
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I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
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Labor is life; thought is light.
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
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A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.
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Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.
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Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive. It goes from one wonder to another. It mounts by a ladder. The science of to-day would seem extravagant to the science of a former time. Ptolemy would believe Newton mad.
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He who despairs is wrong.
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We teachers make the road, others will make the journey.
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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
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Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
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A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner.