More Quotes by Victor Hugo
If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
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.
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
He was fond of the tavern, and felt comfortable only among coarse language, military gallantries, easy beauties, and easy conquests.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.
Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
