Tag: Victor Hugo
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Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo
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There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.
Victor Hugo
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Victor Hugo
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
Victor Hugo
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
Victor Hugo
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
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When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Victor Hugo
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
Victor Hugo