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

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

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Men
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate. – Victor Hugo

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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. – Victor Hugo

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance – these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. – Isaiah Berlin

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Men

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men

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

Beware of men who cry. Its true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own. – Nora Ephron

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You know I used to listen to music a lot more. – Brett Favre

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It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace ones steps to the upper air – theres the rub, the task. – Virgil

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A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldnt go by yourself. – Joel A. Barker

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Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with. – Margaret Cho

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