Victor Hugo ( 10 of 71 )
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.)
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that read more
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
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.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
