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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

Victor Hugo
Children, Rich, Educate

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Victor Hugo
Heart, Giving, Mind

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Life, Change
"Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo
Love, Bullying, Optimistic

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

Victor Hugo
Hurt, Listening, World

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Victor Hugo
Government, People, Evil

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo
Life, Encouraging, Perseverance

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Political, Politics

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

Victor Hugo
Positive, Names, Impossible

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

Victor Hugo
Wise, Wisdom, Men

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

Victor Hugo
Stones, Sensitive, Plant
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

Victor Hugo
Love, Relationship, Wisdom

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

Victor Hugo
Children, Eye, Light

Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Victor Hugo
Sleep, Going To Sleep, Awake
Victor Hugo (1898). “From exile, and after the fall of the Empire”

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

Victor Hugo
Real, Lying, Vices
Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.43, My Ebook Publishing House

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Victor Hugo
Love, Wisdom, Stills
Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Victor Hugo
Air, Castles, Castles In The Air

God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.

Victor Hugo
Cat, Men, Giving

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Victor Hugo
Night, Free Education, Soul

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

Victor Hugo
Behinds
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3031, Delphi Classics

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

Victor Hugo
Mean, Opportunity, Names
Speech by President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, at inauguration of National Conference of the Association for the Progress of Management, www.lamoncloa.gob.es. November 13, 2012.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Victor Hugo
Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

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