Victor Hugo Quotes, Men Quotes, Compassion Quotes

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who are you? Whence do we come and is it quite certain that we did nothing before we were born? This earth is not without some resemblance to a gaol. Who knows but that man is a victim of divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so constituted that one senses punishment everywhere.

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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

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Loving is half of believing.

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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

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One cannot resist an idea whose time has come.

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Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal.

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The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple.

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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

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The world of sleep has an existence of its own.

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

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There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

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A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

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Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background.

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God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

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It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.

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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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Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

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