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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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Philosophy should be an energy it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.
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When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
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Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
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If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.
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He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.
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The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread but before bread, one must have the ideal.
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A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism.
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Sleep comes more easily than it returns.
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The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.
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The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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A stand can be made against invasion by an army no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
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Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
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A smile is the same as sunshine it banishes winter from the human countenance.
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At least you are mine! Soon – in a few months, perhaps, my angel will sleep in my arms, will awaken in my arms, will live there. All your thought at all moments, all your looks will be for me all my thought, all my moments, all my looks will be for you!
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