Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Quote by Victor Hugo

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As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the...

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the...

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor....

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor....

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature...

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature...

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,...

May you have enough happiness to make you sweet, enough trials to make you strong,...

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not...

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being...

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being...

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must...

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must...

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies...

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies...

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels...

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

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

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