Quote by Victor Hugo
Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much infl

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls. – Victor Hugo

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Integrity
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh. – Victor Hugo

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Art
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist. – Thomas Carlyle, Sir Walter Scott, in London and Westminster Review, 12 November

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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. – Samuel Lover

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Miscellaneous

Spirituality is… the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. – Author Unknown

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A whirl of torrid dust veils the picture. – Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift, 1963, translated from Russian by Michael Scammell

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Miscellaneous

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He who begins and does not finish loves their pains. – Proverb

Category:
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms. – Michael Pollan

Category:
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. – William Tecumseh Sherman

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I hate menus, I hate choosing food. I just want to be brought. Bring me dinner! – Hugh Laurie

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Food