Quand vous ouvrez une école, vous fermez une prison.
Victor Hugo
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MONTESQUIEU Une vie est réussie quand elle n’est faite que de verbes d’action.
SYLVAIN TESSON Vous les occidentaux, vous avez l'heure mais vous n'avez jamais le temps
MAHATMA GANDHI «Vous devez faire les choses que vous vous croyez incapable de faire.»
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Vous les hommes, vous êtes tous à votre manière victime d'une femme. Mais ça vous sert. Et tu sa...
FREDERICO MOCCIA Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillo...
JODI PICOULT En pleine bagarre, vous vous en tenez au strict nécessaire, à savoir étriper l’adversaire en fa...
JONATHAN STROUD Si vous êtes pris dans le rêve de l‘autre; vous êtez foutus.
GILLES DELEUZE Quel que soit le nombre de saintes paroles que vous lisez, que vous prononciez, quel bien vous feron...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Quant aux toilettes, elles etainet tout simplement inexistantes. Pour faire ses besoins, il fallait ...
ANINA CIUCIU You are like the eels of Melun; you cry out before you are
skinned.
[Fr., Vous semblez les anguil...
FRANCOIS RABELAIS « Si vous êtes neutre dans les situations d'injustice, vous avez choisi le camp de l'agresseur. ...
DESMOND TUTU Mes joues creuses et mon regard perçant ne facilitent pas les choses quand il s'agit de franchir un...
BJøRN GABRIELSEN Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you
have wished it so.
[Fr., Vous l'...
JEAN BAPTISTE POQUELIN MOLIERE Ne renoncez pas à faire ce que vous voulez vraiment faire. Là où il y a des rêves, de l’amour ...
ELLA FITZGERALD Je ne connais pas la moitié d'entre vous autant que je le voudrais. Et j'aime moins de la moitié d...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Vous avez cru jusqu'à ce jour qu'il y avait des tyrans ! Eh bien vous vous êtes trompés, il n'y a...
ANSELME BELLEGARRIGUE Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo
JEAN COCTEAU Une seule parole riche de sens qui procure la paix quand on l'entend vaut mieux que les mille mots d...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you
are preparing for yourself!
[Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA) J'ai consulté mon téléphone: je n'avais aucun message. C'est à cela que servent les téléphones...
DAVID FOENKINOS Gauvin reprit :
-Et la femme? qu'en faites-vous?
Cimourdain répondit:
-Ce qu'elle es...
VICTOR HUGO Do you think then that revolutions are made with rose water?
[Fr., Voulez-vous donc qu'on vous fas...
SEBASTIEN-ROCH-NICOLAS DE CHAMFORT Ce qu'on appelle une raison de vivre est en même temps une excellente raison de mourir.
ALBERT CAMUS Il ne savait pas encore s'il souffrait parce qu'il suivait une pente et que l'avenir venait à lui s...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is not a revolt, it is a revolution.
[Fr., Ce n'est pas une revolte, c'est une revolution.]
FRANCOIS LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT Attendez!... Je choisis mes rimes... Là, j'y suis.
(Il fait ce qu'il dit, à mesure.) EDMOND ROSTAND That is fine, and I would have praised you more had you praised
me less.
[Fr., Cela est beau, et ...
FRANCOIS DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD - Mais au début, vous avez dû être heureuse?
- Juste le temps d'y voir clair. Vous croyez pe...
AGATHE COLOMBIER HOCHBERG Si vous êtes contre la guerre, soyez pour la Paix.
MAHATMA GANDHI I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They'r...
DAVID DUCHOVNY Jamais ma grand-mère ne se séparait de moi sans me donner quelque chose, un bonbon, une pièce de ...
NATHACHA APPANAH Ces enfants mûrissent trop tôt parce que, ayant été rendus sensibles aux malheurs, c'est ce qu'i...
BORIS CYRULNIK Et j'emmerde tous les gens bien-pensants qui estiment qu'un homme et une femme ne peuvent se limiter...
DAN DASTIER Soyez vous-même. Vous êtes unique. Aucune comparaison n'est possible. Chacun d'entre nous se déve...
TILOPA Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers ép...
ALPHONSE KARR Il faut collectionner les pierres qu'on vous jette. C'est le début d'un piédestal.
HECTOR BERLIOZ La vie est une farce, apprends à rire.
MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS On lit pour découvrir une vision du monde.
AMéLIE NOTHOMB Tremble, ye tyrants, for ye can not die.
[Fr., Tremblez, tyrans, vous etes immortels.]
JACQUES DELILLE (JAQUES DELISLE) Vous n'y penserez plus dans six mois. Pourquoi ne pas commencer tout de suite ?
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Une froideur ou une incivilité qui vient de ceux qui sont au-dessus de nous nous les fait haïr, ma...
JEAN DE LA BRUYèRE A great unrecognized incapacity.
[Fr., Une grande incapacite inconnue.]
KARL OTTO VON SCHONHAUSEN BISMARCK Une perception élargie, telle est la finalité de l'art.
GILLES DELEUZE Aucun destin ne justifierait une quelconque exaltation de quiconque
ALBERT EINSTEIN Peut-on juger une vie sur un seul acte ?
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the
greater dupe, he or you?
[Fr., Vo...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m...
HENRI POINCARé Parfois, tu rêves que le sommeil est une morte lente qui te gagne, une anestésie douce et terrible...
GEORGES PEREC La vie, ce n'est pas une bite, elle est toujours dure.
CHAHDORTT DJAVANN « Une situation a besoin d'être acceptée telle quelle ou d'être solutionnée. »
ECKHART TOLLE Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY - Que devient une étoile qui meurt ?
- Un rêve qui vit.
PIERRE BOTTERO J'ai un but, une tâche, disons le mot, une passion. Le métier d'écrire en est une violente et pre...
GEORGE SAND Tous les jours arrivaient des avions et sur chacun, il y avait un message.
« Gardez votre eau ...
CHRISTIANE DUCHESNE Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
AUGUSTUS EUGENE SCRIBE AND GERMAIN DELAVIGNE Une femme qui pleure et te demande de la protéger c’est Grandiose
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à c...
CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS - L'amitié, tu sais, c'est comme une écharpe très douce dans laquelle on s'enroule.
KARINE LAMBERT Greater cane does not make greater humans. (Une plus grande canne - N'agrandit l'homme.)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE Une civilisation sans la Science, ce serait aussi absurde qu'un poisson sans bicyclette.
PIERRE DESPROGES What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l...
MADAME MARIE ANNE DU DEFFAND ti amo.je vous aime.ich liebe dich.ik jullie bemin.eu te amo.
no matter how you say it;;
I love you
MEGAN Mais voici qu’aujourd’hui nous avons éprouvé la soif. Et ce puits que nous connaissons, nous d...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY L'amour est une catastrophe magnifique: savoir que l'on fonce dans un mur et accélérer quand même...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER A heart of stone is a sculpture? (Un cœur de pierre - Est une sculpture ?)
CHARLES DE LEUSSE The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO Hier aupres de Charenton
Un serpent morait Jean Freron,
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Ce...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You tr...
EZRA POUND Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
[Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la neces...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE La vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter.
MOTHER TERESA You have your face bare; I am all face.
[Fr., Vous avez bien la face desouverte; moi je suis tout ...
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE Un gros serpent mordit Aurele.
Que croyez-vous qu'il arriva?
Qu' Aurele en mourut? Bagatelle!...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these
pyramids.
[Fr., Soldats, du haut c...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE (NAPOLEON I) Mme Therbouche: Ah oui, qu’avez-vous fait jusqu’à présent pour la morale ?
Diderot: (sans...
ÉRIC-EMMANUEL SCHMITT On la connaît tous...
Cette solitude qui nous mine parfois.
Qui sabote notre sommeil ou p...
GUILLAUME MUSSO Chaque jour qui commence est une page vierge. Une étendue de temps qui n’a pas encore été vécu...
CATHERINE RAMBERT Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
[Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esp...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Sur quelque préférence une estime se fonde,
Et c'est n'estimer rien qu'estimer tout le monde.
MOLIèRE Etre parfaitement adapté à une société profondément malade n'est pas forcément un signe de bon...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
VICTOR HUGO No one can keep a secret better than a child.
VICTOR HUGO There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
VICTOR HUGO But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
VICTOR HUGO A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
VICTOR HUGO One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
VICTOR HUGO The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.
VICTOR HUGO A war between Europeans is a civil war.
VICTOR HUGO One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to ...
VICTOR HUGO Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
VICTOR HUGO A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
VICTOR HUGO I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
VICTOR HUGO Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
VICTOR HUGO Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even t...
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 Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
VICTOR HUGO Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that...
VICTOR HUGO The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
VICTOR HUGO The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.
VICTOR HUGO Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
VICTOR HUGO It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
VICTOR HUGO Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be...
VICTOR HUGO To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.
VICTOR HUGO All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes...
VICTOR HUGO When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad inst...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God.
VICTOR HUGO Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
VICTOR HUGO The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
VICTOR HUGO Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man him...
VICTOR HUGO Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
VICTOR HUGO One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
VICTOR HUGO Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
VICTOR HUGO To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.
VICTOR HUGO Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
VICTOR HUGO Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
VICTOR HUGO To contemplate is to look at shadows.
VICTOR HUGO To think of shadows is a serious thing.
VICTOR HUGO Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
VICTOR HUGO Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
VICTOR HUGO Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.
VICTOR HUGO Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
VICTOR HUGO Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman...
VICTOR HUGO The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.
VICTOR HUGO What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
VICTOR HUGO To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
VICTOR HUGO Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue...
VICTOR HUGO The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
VICTOR HUGO To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
VICTOR HUGO Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
VICTOR HUGO He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread tha...
VICTOR HUGO Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
VICTOR HUGO Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
VICTOR HUGO Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowi...
VICTOR HUGO Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
VICTOR HUGO There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than th...
VICTOR HUGO A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and an invisible labor...
VICTOR HUGO Ils tombèrent dans cette redoutable erreur de prendre l'obéissance du soldat pour le consentement ...
VICTOR HUGO Those who live are those who fight.
VICTOR HUGO Life is a flower of which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak...
VICTOR HUGO To love another person is to see the face of God. Les Miserables
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO Then press my lips, where plays a flame of bliss,--
A pure and holy love-light,--and forsake
T...
VICTOR HUGO Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second ...
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent
VICTOR HUGO Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
VICTOR HUGO Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
VICTOR HUGO An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his ...
VICTOR HUGO Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
VICTOR HUGO A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and...
VICTOR HUGO Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being cond...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.
VICTOR HUGO There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
VICTOR HUGO God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
VICTOR HUGO The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands.
VICTOR HUGO Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his nam...
VICTOR HUGO Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
VICTOR HUGO Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
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VICTOR HUGO To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of ...
VICTOR HUGO Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of ...
VICTOR HUGO From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and ea...
VICTOR HUGO Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
VICTOR HUGO Loving is half of believing.
VICTOR HUGO Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laborious...
VICTOR HUGO There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the...
VICTOR HUGO Be like the bird who, halting in his flight on a limb too slight, yet sings, knowing he has wings.
VICTOR HUGO Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
VICTOR HUGO There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
VICTOR HUGO As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
VICTOR HUGO There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has com...
VICTOR HUGO Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.
VICTOR HUGO It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate ...
VICTOR HUGO In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. ...
VICTOR HUGO What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections of the soul? Man is a depth ...
VICTOR HUGO A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns yo...
VICTOR HUGO I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
VICTOR HUGO Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscur...
VICTOR HUGO Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
VICTOR HUGO Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are...
VICTOR HUGO One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidd...
VICTOR HUGO For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
VICTOR HUGO We are the children of our own deeds.
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his...
VICTOR HUGO Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
VICTOR HUGO The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your...
VICTOR HUGO Liberation is not deliverance.
VICTOR HUGO A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with pover...
VICTOR HUGO Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are sha...
VICTOR HUGO The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its d...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity? It's glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith.
VICTOR HUGO Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
VICTOR HUGO It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which...
VICTOR HUGO In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true divi...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect....
VICTOR HUGO There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins b...
VICTOR HUGO If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the si...
VICTOR HUGO Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of...
VICTOR HUGO Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we ourselves? Who am I and who ar...
VICTOR HUGO We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exi...
VICTOR HUGO Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is ...
VICTOR HUGO Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevente...
VICTOR HUGO Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomeno...
VICTOR HUGO The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the hum...
VICTOR HUGO He does not weep who does not see.
VICTOR HUGO Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race is called Progress, and so is ...
VICTOR HUGO Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race is called Progress, the coll...
VICTOR HUGO No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
VICTOR HUGO The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the presen...
VICTOR HUGO We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wr...
VICTOR HUGO Toleration is the best religion.
VICTOR HUGO I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
VICTOR HUGO A little girl without a doll is almost as unfortunate and quite as impossible as a woman without chi...
VICTOR HUGO Popularity is glory's small change.
VICTOR HUGO For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who b...
VICTOR HUGO Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad
VICTOR HUGO The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.
VICTOR HUGO For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind,
Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind.
VICTOR HUGO King of the peak and glacier,
King of the cold, white scalps,
He lifts his head at that close ...
VICTOR HUGO To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A compliment is like a kiss through a veil.
VICTOR HUGO The clouds,--the only birds that never sleep.
VICTOR HUGO You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It...
VICTOR HUGO A library implies an act of faith
VICTOR HUGO Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
VICTOR HUGO Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
VICTOR HUGO There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their...
VICTOR HUGO The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, this i...
VICTOR HUGO To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
VICTOR HUGO He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
VICTOR HUGO Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...
VICTOR HUGO The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist...
VICTOR HUGO And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
F...
VICTOR HUGO A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debas...
VICTOR HUGO Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is ...
VICTOR HUGO There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his gra...
VICTOR HUGO The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
VICTOR HUGO Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality o...
VICTOR HUGO Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.
VICTOR HUGO Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
VICTOR HUGO Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have labori...
VICTOR HUGO Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
VICTOR HUGO Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.
VICTOR HUGO How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts...
VICTOR HUGO Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they t...
VICTOR HUGO What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
VICTOR HUGO The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them...
VICTOR HUGO When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
VICTOR HUGO Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
VICTOR HUGO Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
VICTOR HUGO Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
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