Victor Hugo Quotes, Light Quotes, Exaggeration Is Quotes

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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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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The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

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

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God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.

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True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.

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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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Despotism is a long crime.

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The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

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M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

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by making himself a priest made himself a demon.

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It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

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

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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

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For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art.

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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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