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But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.

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So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

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Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.

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The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.

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If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go.

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There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

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Labor is life; thought is light.

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He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

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Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

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In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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A translation in verse . . . seems to me something absurd, impossible.

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The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

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Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

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