It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Author: Victor Hugo

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Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

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

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

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

Just as true humor is laughter at oneself, true humanity is knowledge of oneself.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.