In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Have courage for the great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He who has not been a determined accuser during prosperity should hold his peace in adversity. He alone who denounces the success… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving… — 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
“In the future no one will kill anyone, the earth will shine, the human race will love. It will come, citizens, the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
God in his harmony has equal ends For cedar that resists and reed that bends; For good it is a woman sometimes… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All this ferment was public, we might almost say tranquil. The imminent insurrection gathered its storm calmly in the face of the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was out there alone with himself, composed, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart to the serenity of the skies,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He was there alone with himself, collected, tranquil, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the serenity of the skies, moved… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The glance of women resembles certain combinations of wheels, which are tranquil in appearance yet formidable. You pass close to them every… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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 Image