Victor Hugo on business
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
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What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Reality in strong doses frightens.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it – there is a certain shameful solidarity.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Don’t educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
Victor HugoVictor Hugo The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
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