Victor Hugo Quotes, Self Quotes, Atheism Quotes

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion.

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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

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A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

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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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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls.

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The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

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To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

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Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

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Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

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My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

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Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

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