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

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both. – Victor Hugo

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Poetry
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Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach. – Victor Hugo

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God
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

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power
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It was the men I deceived the most that I loved the most. – Marguerite Duras

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Force always attracts men of low morality. – Albert Einstein

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Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near. – Helen Rowland

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Either war is obsolete, or men are. – R. Buckminster Fuller

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