More Quotes by Victor Hugo
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration?
Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
Never was keener anguish lavished upon a thing more charming or more delicate.
To them the idea of man is inseparable from the idea of shade. The night is called sorgue; man, orgue. Man is a derivative of night.
To set up a theory that lacks a source of truth is an excellent example of blind assurance.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
