Inspiring Quotes by Victor Hugo - Page 3

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"Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone"

"Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars"

"One believes others will do what he will do to himself"

"I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores"

"I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself"

"The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them"

"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human"

"The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable"

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet"

"As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer"

"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them"

"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men"

"Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery"

"Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God"

"No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep"

"No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child"

"No one can keep a secret better than a child"

"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it"

"A great artist is a great man in a great child"

"Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides"

"Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal"

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them"

"Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach"

"Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions"

"He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free"

"My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic"

"Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman"

"It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her"

"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live"

"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life"

"It is by suffering that human beings become angels"

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