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There are people who observe the rules of honor as we observe the stars: from a distance


Victor Hugo

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JEAN COCTEAU Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS When you observe the rules, it will provide the desired results.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we...
ADAM RIESS Her life will become a testimony to observe from a distance, and inspire us to fight for a better to...
DUJUAN SMITH To observe life as an inevitability and to observe the nuanced stratification of life are two comple...
ERALDO BANOVAC The reason we were able to observe it and determine the distance is because we were able to see the ...
GUIDO CHINCARINI Who will observe the observers?
ARTHUR EDDINGTON I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ...
VICTOR HUGO It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.
T.S. ELIOT Our goal as believers is to teach people to observe the principles of God
SUNDAY ADELAJA I didn't think it was enough to just observe from a distance. To hope for a better world, like Ghand...
IKAIKA HUSSEY It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... What we are trying to do is observe [planets] eclipsing their stars. Kepler will be put into space t...
DIMITAR SASSELOV Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.
GEORGE SANTAYANA What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure...
ERWIN SCHRODINGER To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how t...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.
T. S. ELIOT This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to obser...
FRANZ KAFKA The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Some of the most important things are the cultural practices that people can do with their lawns. We...
BOB DALE Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
ERIC CANTONA From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
WADADA LEO SMITH We used a UAV to observe,
BARBARA FAST In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. ...
VICTOR HUGO Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to ob...
TONY BUZAN Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, t...
VICTOR HUGO Observe the opportunity.
BIBLE I think we will observe a trend of mobile services replacing fixed-line services (in Russia). This t...
VALERY YASHIN For all of us who observe B.C. politics, the Premier is off to a good start,
DAVID MITCHELL As we observe our thoughts, it brings meaning to the experiences and we create our life
ANUPAMA GARG I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
JOHN DONNE We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
PETER R. GRANT Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS It is always interesting to observe what people are wearing in the middle of the night, although the...
LEMONY SNICKET Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.
G.I. GURDJIEFF People observe your actions/behaviours more than you think.
ADNAN BAHATTI It's wonderful news for us, the University of North Dakota and the scientists we helped. Our part wa...
GEORGE SEIELSTAD Opportunity exist every second,for those who observe with dexterity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I wonder if the sea life we extract from the ocean, observe, and put back in the ocean have the same...
BREANNA CASELLA Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the p...
BIBLE Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principle...
XUN KUANG It is the theory that decides what we can observe.
ALBERT EINSTEIN When we are quiet and observant, we get answers to complex questions and problems
SOTONYE ANGA From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. T...
ANDREA HIRATA A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We do not observe reality, we observe our REACTIONS to it.

In other words:
Reality i...
GORDANA BIERNAT We have no way of citing someone we did not observe driving.
GRACE BRADY So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH You can observe a lot by just watching.
YOGI BERRA My mission is vague. I am here to appreciate the situation.
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA FILM Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.
ADONIRAM JUDSON No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
SEBASTIAN ROCH NICOLAS CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it.
CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.
SEBASTIEN-ROCH NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT No law reaches it, but all right-minded people observe it
CHAMFORT We observe the same time all year. In Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, they want to be fully synchroniz...
HARVEY BROOKS We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon ...
BOBBY SEALE Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, tw...
SAI BABA You will observe a vast wasteland.
NEWTON N. MINOW The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of ...
ISAAC NEWTON Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.
MARK TWAIN Opportunity exist for those who can observe trends,for this world is a trending place.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Opportunity exist for those who can observe trends, for this world is a trending place.
AULIQ-ICE First you have to learn the rules of the game, then you have to know the game better than anyone els...
APURVA GAGLANI He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG There is a reason I sit up in the booth and observe. I have a lot of faith in my staff.
CRAIG JOHNSTON Observe the laws of the state and be an exemplary citizen.
SRI SATHYA SAI BABA You can observe a lot by watching.
YOGI BERRA The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - h...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The most important pratical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe-how ...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...
VICTOR HUGO At the top, I put the camera's viewfinder to my eye and slowly turned, the way my grandmother had ta...
MARY SIMSES "When we take a road trip it not the number of miles we drive, but the wonders of nature we observe....
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Just stand still beside me and watch people, you can observe a lot instead of talking to them.
VIKRANT PARSAI Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serve...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH I'm here to observe and support the senate.
CADE BERNSEN Observe all men, thyself most.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I observe and remain silent.
ELIZABETH I Children observe everything with caution.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of '...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB I am small.

So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.
C. KENNEDY These animals are smart enough to observe behaviors and imitate them.
INGRID PORTON Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. Al...
B. R. AMBEDKAR The secret to life's magical breakthroughs are nothing magical,but they only happen when people dare...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She walked to the rear door and took out a bobby pin from her pocket. Hugo watched as she fiddled wi...
BRIAN SELZNICK We didn't get responses on forming a Palestinian-Israeli joint committee to follow up and observe th...
SAEB EREKAT That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
SIR WILLIAM OSLER The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
VICTOR HUGO The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,-- A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible l...
VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
VICTOR HUGO It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
VICTOR HUGO What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old. (Ah! he can see enough, when years are told, Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO