There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. — Victor Hugo Class Copy Share Image
“the purifying action of Conscience upsets the legal order.” — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it. — 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 Book Copy Share Image
Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place… — Victor Hugo Accidents Copy Share Image
The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,loved in spite of ourselves. — Victor Hugo Conviction 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 Poverty Copy Share Image
Je hais vos idées, mais je me ferait tuer pour que vous ayez le droit de les exprimer. I hate your ideas,… — Victor Hugo Freedom Copy Share Image
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with… — Victor Hugo Dream Copy Share Image
“Il giorno in cui una donna che vi passa davanti sprigiona luce camminando, siete perduto, amate. Non vi rimane da far altro… — Victor Hugo Amor Copy Share Image
“Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred… — Victor Hugo Art Copy Share Image
“As long as social damnation exists, through law and customs, artificially creating hell at the heart of civilization and muddying the a… — Victor Hugo Books Copy Share Image
“Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is… — Victor Hugo Education Copy Share Image
One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“He baptized his adopted child, and named him Quasimodo, either because he wished to mark in this way the day upon which… — Victor Hugo Children Copy Share Image
“Si l'on n'est plus que mille, eh bien, j'en suis ! Si même Ils ne sont plus que cent, je brave encor… — Victor Hugo Fight Copy Share Image
“At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the… — Victor Hugo Conscience Copy Share Image
“Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been… — Victor Hugo Happiness Copy Share Image
In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted,… — Victor Hugo Caves Copy Share Image
