Victor Hugo Quotes, Nature Quotes, Eye Quotes

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

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Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.

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A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

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Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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Enthusiasm is the fever of reason.

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

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His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

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Liberation is not deliverance.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

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