Humans Quotes by Victor Hugo

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

— Victor Hugo

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

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Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.

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Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the…

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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

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A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages…

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A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.

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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

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Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

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If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.

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All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea,…

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God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes…

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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself…

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Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and…

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Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,…

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...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that,…

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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all…

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Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and…

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Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean…

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I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has…

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Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth,…

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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery…

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Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the…

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Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must…

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Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation,…

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I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work,…

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In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great…

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There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition…

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This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate…

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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead…

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I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to…

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No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of…

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The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of…

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To sum up all, let it be known that science and religion are two identical words. The learned do not suspect this,…

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I didn't believe it could be so monstrous. It's wrong to be so absorbed in divine law as not to perceive human…

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In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great…

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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature…

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The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be…

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