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1  Tholomyes, your opinions fix the law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE DEATH OF A HORSE
2  I do not blame the law, but I bless God.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
3  The least possible sin is the law of man.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
4  Madeleine, "the highest law is conscience."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED ...
5  It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
6  It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
7  This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the law then stigmatized as seditious speeches.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
8  A member of the Convention produced on him somewhat the effect of being outside the pale of the law, even of the law of charity.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
9  The guillotine is the concretion of the law; it is called vindicte; it is not neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
10  Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
11  Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part of the culprit in respect to his fault.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
12  The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does not, as yet, permeate it; it is said that slavery has disappeared from European civilization.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI—CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT
13  The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden times, all are subjects of this fairy.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV—THOLOMYES IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH ...
14  This is the second time, during his studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of this book has come across the theft of a loaf of bread as the point of departure for the disaster of a destiny.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—JEAN VALJEAN
15  He fully shared the opinion of those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power of making, or, if the reader will have it so, of authenticating, demons, and who place a Styx at the base of society.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
16  Souls which have fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon their heads.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
17  Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the situation, of replacing the fault of the delinquent by the fault of the repression, of converting the guilty man into the victim, and the debtor into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the man who had violated it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
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