All Victor Hugo Quotes
The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.
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Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
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Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful.
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