Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGOPerseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGOWhat 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 HUGOToleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGONot seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.
VICTOR HUGONot being heard is no reason for silence.
VICTOR HUGOA criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict’s suit or a monarch’s crown.
VICTOR HUGOYou ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
VICTOR HUGOTeach 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 HUGOIf the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness
VICTOR HUGOTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
VICTOR HUGONo army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGOLove is life, if it is not death.
VICTOR HUGOConscience is God present in man.
VICTOR HUGODuring a wise man’s whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege.
VICTOR HUGOTo die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul.
VICTOR HUGOEven the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO