More Quotes by Victor Hugo
The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.
Thus, in speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom.
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
