Victor Hugo Quotes

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.

Women play with their beauty like children with a knife, and they hurt themselves.

Saving civilization is saving the life of a people.

Primary education is the right of the child.

Beauty is worth as much as usefulness.

Those who suffer because they love: love even more; to die of love is to live.