Victor Hugo Quotes

• The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kindness, Small Acts

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• Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

  Victor Hugo

  Hurt, Listening, World

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• Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Rich, Educate

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• Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Giving, Mind

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• Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography". Book by Victor Hugo, translated by Lorenzo O'Rourke, Funk & Wagnalls edition, 1907.

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• Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

  Victor Hugo

  Government, People, Evil

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• The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Positive, Names, Impossible

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• Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Oppression, Idleness

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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Encouraging, Perseverance

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• When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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• No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Strength, Wisdom

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  Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Real, Lying, Vices

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.43, My Ebook Publishing House

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• In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none.

  Victor Hugo

  Hands, Fists, Peace And Love

  "Toilers of the Sea".

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• If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

  Victor Hugo

  Stones, Sensitive, Plant

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Ignorant

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• Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Adversity, Men

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• To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Les Mis, Terrible

  "My midlife crisis has focused me on what to do between now and death" by Clare Allan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

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• Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

  Victor Hugo

  Fairness, Easy, Difficult

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• Those who do not weep, do not see.

  Victor Hugo

  Sad, Cry, Les Miserable

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• There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Thinking, Tongue

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.8

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• As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

  Victor Hugo

  Mind, Pity, Should

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Errors, Truth Is

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.460, Modern Library

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• It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie.

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Lying, Silence

  "Les misérables".

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