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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes
“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.”
“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
“Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.”
“What makes night within us may leave stars.”
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
“We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.”
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
“I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.”
“To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.”
“We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.”
“To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.”
“On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.”
“We are for religion against the religions.”
“There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.”
“We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.”
“The wind of revolutions is not tractable.”
“I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.”
“Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.”
“The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.”
“Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats.”
“Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”
“There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.”
“Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.”
“The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.”
“He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.”