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He Quotes by Victor Hugo
- He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
- The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
- A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
- He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of…
- When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
- Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been…
- The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
- The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
- He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
- One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
- Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
- When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
- Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.
- One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by…
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- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
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