Victor Hugo ( 10 of 71 )
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more
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.
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command read more
It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
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The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shadows,
The thin, clear crescent lustrous over her,
Made Ruth raise question, looking through the bars
Of heaven, with eyes half-oped, what God, what comer
Unto the harvest of the eternal summer,
Had flung his golden hook down on the field of stars.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
