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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

He does not weep who does not see. – Victor Hugo

Popularity? Its glorys small change. – Victor Hugo

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness. – Victor Hugo

Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers – Victor Hugo

Joys smile is much closer to tears than laughter. – Victor Hugo

Im religiously opposed to religion. – Victor Hugo

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isnt every war fought between men, between brothers? – Victor Hugo

Lifes greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. – Victor Hugo

Because one doesnt like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. – Victor Hugo

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. – Victor Hugo

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation. – Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution. – Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion. – Victor Hugo

A war between Europeans is a civil war. – Victor Hugo

To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful. – Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. – Victor Hugo

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. – Victor Hugo

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come. – Victor Hugo