Victor Hugo Quotes, God Quotes, Pride Quotes

The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

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Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

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If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

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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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I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

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Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

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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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So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

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The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

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We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

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His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

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Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

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The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real

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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

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No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

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