Quotes from Victor Hugo

Who knows how easily ambition disguises itself under the name of a calling, possibly in good faith and deceiving itself, in sanctimonious confusion?

It is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awake that slumbering Progress.

The light of nature was ignited in him. Unhappiness, which also possesses a clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight which existed in this mind.

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes.

pensée est le labeur de l'intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté. Remplacer la pensée par la rêverie, c'est confondre un poison avec une nourriture.

he, how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold? Monseigneur's dining-room? exclaimed

No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca

Want de liefde is als een boom, die vanzelf groeit, zijn wortels diep uit doet lopen in heel ons wezen en die blijft uitlopen ook als het hart verbrijzeld is.

Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart of man, love.

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

Qui que vousw soyez qui voulez cultiver, vivifier, édifier, attendrir, apaiser... mettez des livres partout. [Ouverture du congrès littéraire international de 1878)]

Cik iesp?jams maz gr?kot - ir cilv?ka likums. Piln?ga bezgr?c?ba ir e??e?a sapnis.Viss, kas ir no š?s zemes, ir pak?auts gr?kam. Gr?kam ir pievilkšanas sp?ks.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

augurs; both of them had celebrated

The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future.

History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these details, which are wrongly called trivial,—there are no trivial facts in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,—are useful.

Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.

Is it not the best pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all?

Un incendie peut faire une aurore sans doute, mais pourquoi ne pas attendre le lever du jour ? Un volcan éclaire, mais l'aube éclaire encore mieux. Combeferre préférait peut-être la blancheur du beau au flamboiement du sublime.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young

The poacher lives in the forest, the smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.

the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.