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Victor Hugo Quotes


Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

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

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

Conscience is God present in man.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

Despotism is a long crime.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

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

Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.