“You ask me what forces me to
speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
“A man is not idle because he is
absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.”
“There is something more terrible
than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. ”
“To die for lack of love is
horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.”
“Are you afraid of the good you
might do?”
“Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices
are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie
within ourselves.”
“There is always more misery among
the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.”
“For there are many great deeds
done in the small struggles of life.”
“I was dying before you came into
my life.”
“Whether true or false, what is
said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on
their destinies, as what they do.”
“Yes, the brutalities of progress
are called revolutions”
“A smile is the same as sunshine;
it banishes winter from the human countenance.”
“Children at once accept joy and
happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and
joy. ”“To destroy abuses is not enough; Habits must also be changed. The
windmill has gone, but the wind is still there."
“To lie a little is not possible:
he who lies, lies the whole lie.”
“There is neither a foreign war nor
a civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”
Victor Hugo
