Victor Hugo

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.