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Most Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the…
- Astronomy, that micography of heaven, is the most magnificent of the sciences. ... Astronomy has its clear side and its luminous side; on its clear…
- Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men…
- We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
- Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.
- There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.
- The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.
- Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth…
- It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.
- If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in…
- What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in…
- Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647;…
- To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view.…
- The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.…
- The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.
- He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of…
- The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.
- It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
- Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes…
- The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire…
- Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee…
- The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
- Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.
- We may remark in passing that to be blind and beloved may, in this world where nothing is perfect, be among the most strangely exquisite…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster