More Quotes by Victor Hugo
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.