Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
- Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
- Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
- Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
- Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
- Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
- Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
- Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
- What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
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