Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
Quote by Victor Hugo
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Victor Hugo Quotes
- The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
- Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- 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.
- Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
- Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
- To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.
- Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
- I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Best Quotes
- When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
- Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
- Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
- Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
- In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
- He was as great as a man can be without morality.
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.
- It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.
- I'm not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. It's not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship.
- What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?