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

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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Earnestness is the salt of eloquence.
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What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.
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Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
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And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.
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Man does not understand nor accept immortality except on condition of self-remembrance.
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Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
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In the opera we call love, the libretto is almost nothing.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.
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Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
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