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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.


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JEAN COCTEAU Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any e...
DIOGENES LAERTIUS Great man is the one who is aware of his smallness in this universe! Greatness starts first of all w...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ...
VICTOR HUGO The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at...
SARAH RUHL It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmeti...
FRANZ KAFKA The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a hum...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas...
VICTOR HUGO The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, b...
CAMERON CONAWAY Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...
VICTOR HUGO In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP During the years of suffering he reachd the conclusion that life was war in which he was one of the ...
VICTOR HUGO Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that...
VICTOR HUGO I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
BRET HARTE One big vice in a man is apt to keep out of a great many smaller ones
BRET HARTE Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
JAN MORRIS A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly r...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO Oscar meet Victor. Victor this is Oscar. And may the best man win." - Dead Editor File
G.G. COLLINS Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The Poor Man whom everyone speaks of, the Poor Man whom everyone pities, one of the repulsive Poor f...
ALBERT CAMUS From the beginning, about the rude altar of the god, to the days of Goethe, of Leopardi, and of Vict...
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes...
EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD If a man contributes fairly it seems to have a lot of ramifications for the rest of the marriage.
NEIL CHETHIK The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that l...
LARRY BRILLIANT It seems like all the good looking people have smaller dogs these days. Especially for the women, be...
ELIZABETH PERKINS Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good togethe...
ESTHER WILLIAMS To sum up: all nature-spirits are not the same as fairies; nor are all fairies nature-spirits. The s...
LEWIS SPENCE The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
VICTOR HUGO So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
VICTOR HUGO But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
VICTOR HUGO She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
VICTOR HUGO I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they ...
F. SIONIL JOSE Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a gre...
BILL COBBS Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
MENCIUS He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becom...
MENCIUS Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of t...
ANNIE JUMP CANNON When you think well of others, cheerful with everyone, find the good in all there is, you are direct...
SISI MODISE Hugo is my family now. I've always had Great Danes, but Hugo is the most loving dog I've ever had. W...
ANNA LEE Don't be a victim by default! Be a victor by choice...
PHILIP T. M. It seems like its Seattle's year. They've had a great year.
DAVE WEBER You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de...
WILHELM REICH I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.
KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions
REINHOLD NIEBUHR Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as gr...
ASA GRAY Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Man could escape danger only by renouncing adventure, by abandoning that which has given to the huma...
RENE DUBOIS It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, ...
RICHARD LE GALLIENNE Apple Valley is going to have a great year on the retail side, they have done a great job in their c...
JOSEPH W. BRADY There is a secret a person with great knowledge discovers along the path to truth. That is, the more...
SUZY KASSEM Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards th...
VICTOR HUGO Time is always moving and as it moves day night, night day the motion of time is clear, to many peop...
GARY F EVANS... The events that happen in our lives make us who we are ,we can either give in to them and let them w...
GARY F EVANS... All great art is by its very essence in conflict with the society with which it exists. It expresses...
ERICH FROMM By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them.
SUZY KASSEM Its great to be the only man in a race with three qualified women. I look forward to having debates ...
JEFF WENINGER I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.
ANGELA L. WOZNIAK Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
NANETTE L. AVERY I refuse to go out with a man whose ass is smaller than mine.
ELIZABETH PERKINS A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Everything that makes man's life worthwhile - family, work, education, a place to rear one's...
ROBERT KENNEDY Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
ROGER EBERT Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its con...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, i...
A. ALVAREZ Some of the other, smaller resorts in Canada are definitely a great deal.
BRUCE ROSARD When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour.
EMMA GOLDMAN When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.
JANE WELSH CARLYLE

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
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VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
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VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
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VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
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VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
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VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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