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Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
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The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.
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No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.
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There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.
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It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.
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Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?
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What love commences can be finished by God alone.
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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
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He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!
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Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!
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Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
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How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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Kings are for nations in their swaddling-clothes: France has attained her majority.
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