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 first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness. – Victor Hugo

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Love
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. – Victor Hugo

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Men
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell

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Men

You [men] are not our protectors…. If you were, who would there be to protect us from? – Mary Edwards Walker

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Men

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men dont compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. – Andrew Carnegie

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Men

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. – Thomas Carlyle

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The sky and the strong wind have moved the spirit inside me till I am carried away trembling with joy. – Uvavnuk

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Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. Every step that Time takes imprints upon the fields as they grow bare and brown… – Charles Nodier, Trilby, ou le lutin d’Argail/Trilby: The Fairy of Argyle,

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What charitable 1 percenters cant do is assume responsibility – Americas national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. – Stephen King

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The sole equality on earth is death. – Philip James Bailey

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