Victor Hugo ( 10 of 71 )
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
