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“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”
— Victor Hugo
“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.”
— Victor Hugo
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
— Victor Hugo
“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.”
— Victor Hugo
“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
— Victor Hugo
“Those who live are those who fight. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.”
— Victor Hugo
“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love! ”
— Victor Hugo
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ”
— Victor Hugo
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
— Victor Hugo
“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.”
— Victor Hugo
“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.”
— Victor Hugo
“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.”
— Victor Hugo
“It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.”
— Victor Hugo
“No one can keep a secret better than a child.”
— Victor Hugo
“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.”
— Victor Hugo
“Despotism is a long crime.”
— Victor Hugo
“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.”
— Victor Hugo
“The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.”
— Victor Hugo
“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.”
— Victor Hugo
“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”
— Victor Hugo
“I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.”
— Victor Hugo
“Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. ”
— Victor Hugo
“Genius: the superhuman in man.”
— Victor Hugo
“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”
— Victor Hugo
“The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.”
— Victor Hugo
“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
— Victor Hugo
“Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.”
— Victor Hugo
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