Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
~~~Les Miserables

We live in a sad society. Succeed -- that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption.
~~~Les Miserables

Human thought has no limit.
~~~Les Miserables

Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right.
~~~Les Miserables

Napoleon had been impeached before the Infinite, and his fall was decreed.
He annoyed God.
~~~Les Miserables

We are unlearning certain things, and that is good, provided that while unlearning one thing, we are learning another. No vacuum in the human heart!
~~~Les Miserables

With nihilism no argument [for a will of the Infinite] is possible. For the logical nihilist doubts the existence of his interlocutor and is not quite sure he exists himself.
~~~Les Miserables

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
~~~Les Miserables

The malicious have a dark happiness.
~~~Les Miserables

Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is a habit lost. A habit easy to abandon difficult to resume.
~~~Les Miserables

A certain amount of reverie is good, like a narcotic in small doses.
~~~Les Miserables

It is nothing to die; it is horrible not to live.
~~~Les Miserables

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