The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life. There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“For many great deeds are accomplished in times of squalid struggle. There is a kind of stubborn, unrecognized courage which in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“to arrive at this flourishing condition had required years. He had undergone everything, in the shape of privation; he had done everything,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“She had spears of straw and grass in her hair, not like Ophelia gone mad through contact with Hamlet's madness, but because… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“It is the story of society's purchase of a slave. A slave purchased from poverty, hunger, cold, loneliness, defenselessness, destitution. A squalid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A saint addicted to abnegation is a dangerous neighbor; he is very likely to infect you with an incurable poverty, a stiffening… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Seeing so much poverty everywhere makes me think that God is not rich. He gives the appearance of it, but I suspect… — 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
