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Victor Hugo7 quotes
An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted. — Victor Hugo · 1878Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. — Victor Hugo · 1864Take away time is money, and what is left of England? Take away cotton is king, and what is left of America? — Victor Hugo · 1862Popularity? It is glory's small change. — Victor Hugo · 1838Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. — Victor Hugo · 1862One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor and invisible labor. — Victor Hugo · 1862All 7 quotes →Colette3 quotes
One of the best things about love is just recognizing a man's step when he climbs the stairs. — Colette · 1941Whether you are dealing with an animal or a child, to convince is to weaken. — Colette · 1932It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. — Colette · 1932Georges Louis Leclerc2 quotes
The noblest conquest man has ever made. — Georges Louis Leclerc · 1753Man alone consumes and engulfs more flesh than all other animals put together. He is, then, the greatest destroyer, and he is so more by abuse than by necessity. — Georges Louis Leclerc · 1753Louis Pasteur2 quotes
Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. — Louis Pasteur · 1873Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur · 1854Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2 quotes
God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1846Property is theft. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon · 1840Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy2 quotes
Love comes from blindness,
Friendship comes from knowledge. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665Absence is to love what wind is to fire;
It extinguishes the small, it kindles the great. — Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy · 1665Bernard of Clairvaux1 quote
I have freed my soul. — Bernard of Clairvaux · 1152Jean Genet1 quote
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. — Jean Genet · 1986St. Bernard of Clairvaux1 quote
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. — St. Bernard of Clairvaux · 1147