Victor Hugo - Human Quotes

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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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All human knowledge is but picking and culling. The circumstance that the false is mingled with the true, furnishes no excuse for rejecting the whole mass. When was the tare an excuse for refusing the corn? Hoe out the weed error, but reap the fact, and place it beside others. Science is the sheaf of facts.

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

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Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. Of that divine tear and that human smile is composed the sweetness of the present civilization.

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Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.

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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?

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