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

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ↗

— Bette Midler

#happiness #humor #inspirational #jealousy #success

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#capable #enduring #free #poverty #who

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#france #kings #yes

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#develop #fierce #forest #human #men

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#begin #compliment #friends #growing #growing old

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#contents #creates #greater #itself #much

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military

In a single moment, we witnessed the worst of human behavior. And in the next, the very best of human behavior. And even more, we witnessed the tremendous spirit of Americans. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

#best #even #human #human behavior #moment