Victor Hugo

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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.
We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.
A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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