More Quotes by Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
From year to year this soul had progressively withered, slowly but inevitably. A dry eye goes with a dead soul. When he left prison, he had not shed a tear for nineteen years.
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.
