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Victor Hugo Quotes

"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.""To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further.""The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist. It is by the ideal that we live.""The learned man knows that he is ignorant""The wise man does not grow old, but ripens""The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor""Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?""Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come""There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher""Conscience is God present in man""There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe""Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery""The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them""Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God""When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age""The first symptom of love in a young man is shyness; the first symptom in a woman, it’s boldness""A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea""What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past""To learn to think is to learn to live""Expand the horizon of the possible until it includes the impossible"