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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Progress is the stride of God.

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

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The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

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The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

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When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

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Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

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Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive, and the part of nature that we do not perceive. ... If you abandon these facts, beware; charlatans will light upon them, also the imbecile. There is no mean: science, or ignorance. If science does not want these facts, ignorance will take them up. You have refused to enlarge human intelligence, you augment human stupidity. When Laplace withdraws Cagliostro appears.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

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The sewer is the conscience of the city.

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Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

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

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Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

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Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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