More Quotes by Victor Hugo
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.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.