Victor Hugo Quotes - Page 3

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Dark Error's other hidden side is truth.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Men hate those to whom they have to lie.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The earth is a great piece of stupidity.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Are you afraid of the good you might do?

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The true artist can only labor con amore.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

God knows better than we do what we need.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

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God made the water but men made the wine.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

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The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Progress is not accomplished in one stage.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

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Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

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We are for religion against the religions.

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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.

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Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

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Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.

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Love is reducing the universe to one being.

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Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

What makes night within us may leave stars.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

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What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

The thirst for the Infinite proves infinity.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

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He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

Who among us has not sought peace in a song?

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Man lives more by affirmation than by bread.

• Victor Hugo / Poet

People do not read stupidities with impunity.