Victor Hugo Quotes, Thinking Quotes

I think, therefore I doubt.

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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

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Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

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Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

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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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Labor is life; thought is light.

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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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We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve.

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She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved.

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Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void.

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Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

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The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

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The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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