Quote by Victor Hugo
Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present. – Victor Hugo

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Time
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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. – Victor Hugo

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God
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A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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Saint, Saints
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I like a man whos good, but not too good – for the good die young, and I hate a dead one. – Mae West

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When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. Thats my religion. – Abraham Lincoln

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good

I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good. – Yakov Smirnoff

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good

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. – Henry David Thoreau

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good

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As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. – Pythagoras

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Golf is an ineffectual attempt to put an elusive ball into an obscure hole with implements ill-adapted to the purpose. – Woodrow Wilson

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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. – William Morris

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The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. – Thomas Huxley

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