More Quotes by Victor Hugo
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
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.
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.
Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves.
The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.
My friends, remember this: there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
If you don't believe in the solidity of iron bars, how dare you have menageries?
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
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.
