Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (1802-02-26 – 1885-05-22) is recognized as the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century and is often identified as the greatest French poet.
Found 110 thoughts of Victor Hugo
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo
Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
Victor Hugo
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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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.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
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Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
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If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.
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What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
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Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
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Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom.
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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'
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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
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