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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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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.
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If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
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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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Habit is the nursery of errors.
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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as foreign war? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
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Progress is not accomplished in one stage.
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He did not study God he was dazzled by him.
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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.
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