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Hugo Victor QUOTES

  • A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  • He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

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

  • Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.



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

  • Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

  • An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

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

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

  • Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  • The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

  • Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

  • Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  • To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

  • People do not lack strength; they lack will.

  • The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  • Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

  • Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

  • My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  • I'm religiously opposed to religion.


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