Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGOInitiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGOPeople do not lack strength, they lack will.
VICTOR HUGOVirtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGOIf you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.
VICTOR HUGOIntelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGOWhen love has fused and mingled two beings in sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned.
VICTOR HUGOIf you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
VICTOR HUGOAlmost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
VICTOR HUGOTo learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGOIt is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
VICTOR HUGONot being heard is no reason for silence.
VICTOR HUGOLove is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.
VICTOR HUGOA man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
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 HUGOThere is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.
VICTOR HUGO