Quote by Victor Hugo
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. - Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters. – Victor Hugo

Other quotes by Victor Hugo

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement — in a word, with more renunciation than you care for — and so you flee the contagion. – Victor Hugo

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Saint, Saints
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. – Victor Hugo

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Happiness
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A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. – Victor Hugo

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War
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Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. – Thomas Jefferson

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Men

Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they cant get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. – Yul Brynner

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Men

Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Men

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest. – Ron Paul

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Men

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Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. – Edward Young

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You have to set the tone and the pace, define objectives and strategies, demonstrate through personal example what you expect from others. – Stanley C. Gault

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Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer. – Bryant H. McGill

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Youre only as young as the last time you changed your mind. – Timothy Leary

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