Victor Hugo Quotes

The freedom to love is no less sacred than the freedom to think. What is now called adultery was once called heresy.

There are no weeds or bad men; there are only bad cultivators.

A revolution is the larva of a civilization.

There is only one power: conscience in the service of justice; there is only one glory: genius, in the service of truth.

Beauty is the forehead, love is the crown.

In man there is a serpent: the intestine, which tempts, betrays, and punishes.

A faith: behold the most necessary thing for man. Unfortunate is the one who believes in nothing.

The genius on earth is God who gives himself. Every time a masterpiece appears, it is a distribution of Divinity that is made to men. The masterpiece is a kind of miracle.

Misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty are battlefields that have their heroes.

As short as life is, we make it even shorter through the foolish waste of time.

Modesty is the epidermis of the soul.

He who denies progress is impious; he who denies progress denies providence, for providence and progress are the same thing, and progress is nothing more than one of the human names of the Eternal God.