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Necessary Quotes by Victor Hugo
- It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious…
- Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
- Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is…
- To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation…
- To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
- It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
- Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the…
- Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
- She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary…
- Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that…
- First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature and the animals.
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- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach
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- Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government.… — Michael Badnarik
- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from… — Mikhail Bakunin
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? — James M. Barrie
- It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire