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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.
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Strong and rare natures are thus created misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother privation gives birth to power of soul and mind distress is the nurse of self-respect misfortune is a good breast for great souls.
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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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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
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There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
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He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
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To learn to read is to light a fire.
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
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Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.
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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.
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To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war.
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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?
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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.
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