Victor Hugo Quotes

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When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,
Sirius appears, and on the horizon black
Bids countless stars pursue their mighty track.

Victor Hugo
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

Victor Hugo
Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind.

Victor Hugo
The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo
God whose gifts in gracious flood
Unto all who seek are sent,
Only asks you to be good
And is content.

Victor Hugo
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea.

Victor Hugo
Hope is a lure. There is no hand that can retain a wave or a shadow.

Victor Hugo
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.

Victor Hugo
Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.—I shall feel it.

Victor Hugo
There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Victor Hugo
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Victor Hugo
These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

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Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Victor Hugo
Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.

Victor Hugo
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

Victor Hugo
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.

Victor Hugo
Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light.

Victor Hugo
Science has but the right to put a visa on facts; she should verify and distinguish.

Victor Hugo
What's our baggage? Only vows,
Happiness, and all our care,
And the flower that sweetly shows
Nestling lightly in your hair.

Victor Hugo