Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 2

• He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Deeds, Masters

  Victor Hugo, A. Baillot, Alfred Barbou (1892*). “Victor Hugo's Works”

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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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• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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

  Victor Hugo

  Hate, Envy, Wicked

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• Those who live are those who fight.

  Victor Hugo

  Life, Fighting

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• A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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  Sunshine, Winter, Countenance

  Victor Hugo (2006). “Les Miserables Vol. II, Book 5–8”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

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  Wisdom, Balance, Harmony

  "Ninety-Three". Book by Victor Hugo, Book VII, Chapter V, 1874.

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• The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

  Victor Hugo

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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  Love, Relationship, Wisdom

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• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

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  Wisdom, Being Free, Poverty

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• What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Wisdom, Stills

  Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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  Motivational, Success, Being Strong

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• Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

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  Night, Free Education, Soul

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

  Victor Hugo

  Education, School, Common Sense

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• The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Opportunity, Names

  Speech by President of the Government, Mariano Rajoy, at inauguration of National Conference of the Association for the Progress of Management, www.lamoncloa.gob.es. November 13, 2012.

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

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  Inspirational, Exercise, Imagination

  "Robb, Victor Hugo". Book by Graham Robb, p. 249, 1997.

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• Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

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  Love, Sexy, Roots

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• If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

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  Children, Eye, Light

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• If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

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  Political, Politics, Speak

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• Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

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  Life, Wisdom, Follow Your Heart

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• To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.

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  Dream, Thinking, Knows

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• 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.

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  Life, Wisdom, Real

  Victor Hugo (1886). “William Shakespeare”

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