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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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He had not yet lived long enough to have discovered that nothing is more close at hand then the impossible, and that what must be looked for is always the unforeseen.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.
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Friend is sometimes a word devoid of meaning enemy, never.
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If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.
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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.
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Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?
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When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
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[T]he small is great, the great is small all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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To destroy abuses is not enough Habits must also be changed. The windmill has gone, but the wind is still there. ~old man G--- to Monseigneur Bienvenu Myriel
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
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I think, therefore I doubt.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith the best will always take care of itself.
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There is in every village a torch - the teacher and an extinguisher - the priest.
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He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.
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Babylon violated diminishes Alexander Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.
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