Victor Hugo Quotes, Science Quotes, Heaven Quotes

Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear side it is tinctured with algebra, on its luminous side with poetry.

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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

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Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

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When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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Revolution is the larva of civilization.

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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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A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

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Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

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A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.

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Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

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