First it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. Now it is necessary to civilize man in relation to nature… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The man is placed where the Earth ends, the woman, where the heaven starts. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps -… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“With the exercise of a little care, the nettle could be made useful; it is neglected and it becomes hurtful. It is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word "no." To "no" there is only one answer and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which… — 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
