That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought,” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Conscience is a strange thing...No matter how great the happiness around me, my soul would have been in darkness. The circumstances of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The moral world has no greater spectacle than this: a troubled and restless conscience on the verge of committing an evil deed,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Man has a tyrant, ignorance. I voted for the demise of that particular tyrant. That particular tyrant has engendered royalty, which is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is certain that people do talk to themselves; there is no living being who has not done it. It may even… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience. . . . You ask why I speak? I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The book which the reader now holds in his hands, from one end to the other, as a whole and in its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We are never done, then, with conscience. Make up your mind what to do with it, Brutus; make up your mind what… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“First I loved women, then animals, and now I love stones. They're just as amusing as women and animals and they're much less trecherous.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering. — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“Loving in ignorance, she loved with all the more passion. She did not know whether it was good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
“When those we love are in question, our prudence invents every sort of madness.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share
