Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 2

• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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  Night, Free Education, Soul

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

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  Hate, Envy, Wicked

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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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  Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

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• Those who do not weep, do not see.

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  Sad, Cry, Les Miserable

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• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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  Motivational, Success, Being Strong

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• When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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  Suicide, Wisdom, Desire

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

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• Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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  Fairness, Easy, Difficult

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

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• A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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  Sunshine, Winter, Countenance

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables Vol. II, Book 5–8”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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  Wisdom, Balance, Harmony

  "Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

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• It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

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  Honesty, Lying, Silence

  "Les misérables".

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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  Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

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• He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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  Wisdom, Deeds, Masters

  Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”

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• If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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  Political, Politics, Speak

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• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Errors, Truth Is

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• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

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  Love, Wisdom, Stills

  Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

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• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

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  Stars, Eye, Passion

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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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  Children, Eye, Light

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• Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

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  Birthday, Health, Medicine

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• To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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  Love, Dark, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

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  Sleep, Going To Sleep, Awake

  Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

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• To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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  Dream, Thinking, Knows

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