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Wisdom is the health of the soul.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World.
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You say, Where goest Thou? I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.
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To love is the half of to believe.
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Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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Ah, cried Gavroche, what does this mean? It rains again! ...If this continues, I withdraw my subscription.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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The English took the eagle and Austrians the eaglet. [Fr., L'Angleterre prit l'aigle, et l'Autriche l'aiglon.]
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All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes.
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What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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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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Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.
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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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To die is nothing but it is terrible not to live.
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God knows better than we do what we need.
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In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.
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