Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 3

• There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

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  Wisdom, Thinking, Tongue

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.8

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• Those who do not weep, do not see.

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  Sad, Cry, Les Miserable

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• Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

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  Sympathy, Sorrow, Doe

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• Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

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  Darkness, Mind, Earth

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

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  Wisdom, Deeds, Masters

  Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”

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• Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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  Inspirational, Exercise, Imagination

  "Robb, Victor Hugo". Book by Graham Robb, p. 249, 1997.

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• Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

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  Stars, Night, Soul

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

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  Wisdom, Men, Pockets

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.68

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• As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

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  Mind, Pity, Should

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

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• God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

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  Cat, Men, Giving

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• I think, therefore I doubt.

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  Thinking, Doubt

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• Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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  Education, Business, Men

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

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• Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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  Wisdom, Weight, Conscience

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.5899, Delphi Classics

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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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  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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

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  Wisdom, Children, Artist

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• To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

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  Love, Dark, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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  Wise, Book, People

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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

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  Paradise, Hell, Rich

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• Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

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  Dying, Terrible

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• There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

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  Weed, Men, Farmers

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• A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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  Sunshine, Winter, Countenance

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables Vol. II, Book 5–8”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

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  To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

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  Thanksgiving, Prayer, Wings

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• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

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  Wisdom, Adversity, Men

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