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Quotes About Compassion

LES MISÉRABLES VOLUME
~ Victor Hugo
The convict was transfigured into Christ.
~ Victor Hugo
Great perils have this fine characteristic, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
~ Victor Hugo
If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive plant; if you are a man, be love.
~ Victor Hugo
Eksige, olge nõrgad, patustage, kuid olge õiglased.
~ Victor Hugo
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration... If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.
~ Victor Hugo
A primeira santidade consiste em pensar no próximo. Vejamos
~ Victor Hugo
It has been said, error is human; I say, error is love.
~ Victor Hugo
He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.
~ Victor Hugo
October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. Room
~ Victor Hugo
Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a recaptured offender against divine justice? Look closely at life. It is so made, that everywhere we feel the sense of punishment.
~ Victor Hugo
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
~ Victor Hugo
What took place next in the fate of M. Myriel?
~ Victor Hugo
He understood how to sit down and hold his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his love
~ Victor Hugo
Live and Let live To love someone is to see the face of God
~ Victor Hugo
No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
~ Victor Hugo
Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?
~ Victor Hugo
The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young
~ Victor Hugo
your name is My Brother.
~ Victor Hugo
It is myself, always myself, myself alone. But, good God! All this egotism. Different forms of egotism, but still egotism! Suppose I should think a little of others? The highest duty is to think of others.
~ Victor Hugo
Now, don't kick a dog 'cause it's only a pup!
~ Victor Hugo
La honradez de un gran corazón, condensada en justicia y en verdad, fulmina.
~ Victor Hugo
Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and touching thing.
~ Victor Hugo
Le pavé lui était moins dur que le cÅ"ur de sa mère.
~ Victor Hugo