Victor Hugo Quotes

The future has many names. For the weak, it is unattainable. For the fearful, it is unknown. For the brave, it is an opportunity.

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

The supreme happiness in life is knowing that you are loved by yourself, or more precisely, despite yourself.

Forty is the mature age of youth; fifty is the youth of mature age.

What is an envious person? An ungrateful individual who detests the light that illuminates and warms them.

It is strange the lightness with which evildoers believe that everything will turn out well for them.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

Freedom is, in philosophy, reason; in art, inspiration; in politics, right.

The eyes can't see God clearly, except through tears.

Nobody lacks strength; what many lack is willpower.

The smaller the heart, the more hatred it harbors.

The acceptance of oppression by the oppressed ends up being complicity; cowardice is consent; there is shameful solidarity and participation between the government that does wrong and the people who allow it to do so.