“We were happy and powerful. But the Europeans came to our country; it was from them that I learned the accomplishments which… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“To love or have loved is enough. Don't ask for anything more. There is no other pearl to be found in the… — 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
“Be it said in passing, that success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“We live in a sad society. Succeed--that is the advice which falls drop by drop from the overhanging corruption. In passing, we… — 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
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and… — 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
“A quarter of an hour more of this success, and there won’t be ten cartridges in the barricade.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Succeed: theory. Prosperity argues capacity. Win in the lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. Be… — 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
“It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit. To… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit. — 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
