Victor Hugo Quotes About Wisdom
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He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
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We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.
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From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty
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No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.
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The wind of revolutions is not tractable.
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The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
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People do not lack strength; they lack will.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
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The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
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We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.
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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.
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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.
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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
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Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume.
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Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
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