Quotes

“Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.” Victor Hugo

“Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.” Victor Hugo

“It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.” Victor Hugo

“Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.” Victor Hugo

“There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.” 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 one and ideas the other.” Victor Hugo

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.” Victor Hugo

“My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.” Victor Hugo

“Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.” Victor Hugo

“There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.” Victor Hugo

“Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.” Victor Hugo

“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.” Victor Hugo

“Those who live are those who fight.” Victor Hugo

“Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.” Victor Hugo

“What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!” Victor Hugo

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.” Victor Hugo

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.” Victor Hugo

“The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.” Victor Hugo

“The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” Victor Hugo

“Evil. Mistrust those who rejoice at it even more than those who do it.” Victor Hugo

“It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.” Victor Hugo

“No one can keep a secret better than a child.” Victor Hugo

“It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.” Victor Hugo

“Despotism is a long crime.” Victor Hugo

“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.” Victor Hugo

“Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.” 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

“By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.” Victor Hugo

“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.” Victor Hugo