The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGOThe soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
VICTOR HUGOGo out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
VICTOR HUGOChange your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGOWisdom is the health of the soul.
VICTOR HUGOWhen a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGOThe learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGOHave 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. God is awake.
VICTOR HUGOIf people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
VICTOR HUGOKnowledge is a weight added to conscience.
VICTOR HUGOIntelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGOLet us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
VICTOR HUGOYou ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
VICTOR HUGOLove is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin.
VICTOR HUGOOur mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
VICTOR HUGOLove would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion.
VICTOR HUGOReason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO