Victor Hugo Quotes
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Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
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If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
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God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love.
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The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.
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To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
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Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
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To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.
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The true artist can only labor con amore.
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Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.
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[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.
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God was bored by him.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man.
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Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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The author creates a book and the people accept or not accept it. The creator of a book is an author and the creator of it`s fate are people.
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Another story must begin!
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Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.
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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.
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Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.
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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.