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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

Victor Hugo
Hate, Envy, Wicked

Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing.

Victor Hugo
Zero, Philosophy, Nihilism
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Victor Hugo
Sad, Cry, Les Miserable

It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

Victor Hugo
Honesty, Lying, Silence
"Les misérables".

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Victor Hugo
Contentment, Enough
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.3500, Delphi Classics

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

Victor Hugo
Fairness, Easy, Difficult

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Victor Hugo
Sympathy, Sorrow, Doe

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Victor Hugo
Life, Les Mis, Terrible
"My midlife crisis has focused me on what to do between now and death" by Clare Allan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Victor Hugo
Motivational, Success, Being Strong

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo
Love, Life, Happiness

Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.

Victor Hugo
Stars, Night, Soul
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6954, Delphi Classics

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Deeds, Masters
Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo
Birthday, Health, Medicine

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo
Suicide, Wisdom, Desire
Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Victor Hugo
Desire, Shameful

Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.

Victor Hugo
Darkness, Mind, Earth
Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Thinking, Tongue
Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.8

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.

Victor Hugo
Wise, Book, People
"Toilers of the Sea".

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Victor Hugo
Mind, Pity, Should
Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Victor Hugo
Paradise, Hell, Rich

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Victor Hugo
Education, Business, Men
Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Balance, Harmony
"Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Victor Hugo
Political, Politics, Speak

Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.

Victor Hugo
Wisdom, Men, Pockets
Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.68

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Victor Hugo
Inspirational, Funny, Life

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