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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most b...more

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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

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A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

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Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

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The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

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The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

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Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

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At the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of revolution, was Combeferre, representing its philosophy. The difference between logic and philos...more

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in...more

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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I ...more

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

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Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'Valjean, who did not recall having made ...more

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Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its little care...Hardly one day in a hundred of unbr...more