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Tag Name "Wisdom" (5618)

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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Victor Hugo
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor Hugo
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Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
Marquis de Sade
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Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
Victor Hugo
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Toleration is the best religion.
Victor Hugo
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One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
Victor Hugo
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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
Victor Hugo
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
Victor Hugo
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Victor Hugo
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Victor Hugo
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
Victor Hugo
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There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Victor Hugo
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Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
Victor Hugo
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
Victor Hugo
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There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.
Victor Hugo
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On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.
Victor Hugo
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Liberation is not deliverance.
Victor Hugo
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I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
Victor Hugo
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
Victor Hugo
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You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
Victor Hugo
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Saintly people not only are responsible for themselves, but for everyone.
Nirmala Srivastava
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
Victor Hugo
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