Quotes by Victor Hugo with men

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

French writer

Lived from: 1802 - 1885

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 26 february 1802 Died: 22 may 1885

  • The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
  • A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
  • Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.
  • I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes - and the stars through his soul.
  • Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
  • Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
  • Popularity? It's glory's small change.
  • Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent
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  • The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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  • Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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  • To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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