Victor Hugo Quotes, Eye Quotes, Men Quotes

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.

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. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.

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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

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As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

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Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

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I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

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Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

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Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

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Despotism is a long crime.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Be happy without picking flaws.

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