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More Quotes by Victor Hugo
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?
From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
It is sometimes no less startling to meet the dog than the wolf.
The tomb is not a blind alley: it is a thoroughfare. It closes on the twilight. It opens on the dawn.
