Victor Hugo Quotes
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This child whom we Love, Brings daylight Into our soul.
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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.
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I dislike wealth and prosperity, especially that of other men.
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When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.
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All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.
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You preserve your shame but you kill your glory.
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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men tough that unknown thing?
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She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
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Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.
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The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.
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Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.
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If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
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There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.
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God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.
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Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself.
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The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts.
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
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There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
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One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant.
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...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
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Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.
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We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.