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More Quotes by Victor Hugo
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
To them the idea of man is inseparable from the idea of shade. The night is called sorgue; man, orgue. Man is a derivative of night.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?
