Victor Hugo

“Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.”

“I'm religiously opposed to religion.”

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”

“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.”

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

“To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful.”

“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”

“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”

“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.”

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

“Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”

“On passe une moitié de sa vie à attendre ceux qu'on aimera et l'autre moitié à quitter ceux qu'on aime.”

“Le peuple donne son sang et son argent, moyennant quoi on le mène.”

“adda”