More Quotes by Victor Hugo
Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
In its printed form, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, irresistible, indestructible.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.
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.