Victor Hugo

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

freedom


Victor Hugo

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

funny


Victor Hugo

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

future


Victor Hugo

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

future


Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

future


Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God.

god


Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

god


Victor Hugo

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.

god


Victor Hugo

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

god


Victor Hugo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

god


Victor Hugo

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

god


Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

god


Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.

god


Victor Hugo

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

god


Victor Hugo

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

god


Victor Hugo

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

god


Victor Hugo

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

good


Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

good


Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

great


Victor Hugo

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

great


Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

great


Victor Hugo

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

great


Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

great


Victor Hugo

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

great


Victor Hugo

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

great


Victor Hugo

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

great


Victor Hugo

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

great


Victor Hugo

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

happiness


Victor Hugo

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

happiness


Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

happiness


Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

happiness


Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

happiness


Victor Hugo

What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.

history


Victor Hugo

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

history


Victor Hugo

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

hope


Victor Hugo

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

imagination


Victor Hugo

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

inspirational


Victor Hugo

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

life


Victor Hugo

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

life


Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

life


Victor Hugo

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

love


Victor Hugo

To love another person is to see the face of God.

love


Victor Hugo

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

love


Victor Hugo

To love beauty is to see light.

love


Victor Hugo

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

love


Victor Hugo

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

love


Victor Hugo

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.

love


Victor Hugo

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

love


Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

men


Victor Hugo

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

men


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