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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The world is the expanding Greece and Greece is the shrinking world.

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night.

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Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

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Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

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God blesses man, not for having found but for having sought.

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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

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If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

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As for the author, he is profoundly unaware of what the classical or romantic genre might consist of.... In literature, as in allthings, there is only the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the true and the false.

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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.

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The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

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Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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