Victor Hugo Quotes, Punishment Quotes, Vengeance Quotes

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

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The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

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He does not weep who does not see.

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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.

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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

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He who despairs is wrong.

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

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I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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When a person opens a book, he can never be in prison.

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Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect.

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The man who fights against his own country is never a hero.

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In love, such a word, whispered, is a mysterious kiss of the soul to the soul.

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In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese.

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Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

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When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that?

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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

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