Victor Hugo Quotes

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

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

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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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• 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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• In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.

  Victor Hugo

  Country, War, Men

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

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Bullying, Optimistic

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• 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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• If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

  Victor Hugo

  Air, Castles, Castles In The Air

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• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Encouraging, Perseverance

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Veils

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• Everything speaks: the flowing airstream and the sailing halycon, the blade of grass, the flower, the bud, the element; did you imagine the universe to be otherwise?

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  Flower, Sailing, Bud

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• If nobody loved, the sun would go out.

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  Educational, Philosophy, Sun

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• Every man is a book in which God himself writes.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Envy, Wicked

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• Not being heard is no reason for silence.

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  Inspiring, Silence, Les Mis

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

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• Habit is the nursery of errors.

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  Learning, Errors, Nursery

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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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  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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• To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Dark, Les Mis

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Miserables”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

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• Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. Sometimes we make love with our eyes. Sometimes we make love with our hands. Sometimes we make love with our bodies. Always we make love with our hearts. If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand. To love another person is to see the face of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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