Victor Hugo Quotes

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Victor Hugo

Profession : Author

Birth : February 26, 1802

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

Victor Hugo

The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

Victor Hugo

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

Victor Hugo

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

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To contemplate is to look at shadows.

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People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Victor Hugo

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Victor Hugo

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.

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To love is to act.

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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

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A war between Europeans is a civil war.

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Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.

Victor Hugo