“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
— Victor Hugo
“You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.”
— Victor Hugo
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
— Victor Hugo
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
— Victor Hugo
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
— Victor Hugo
“One can no more pray too much than love too much.”
— Victor Hugo
“To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.”
— Victor Hugo
“Glory, ambition, armies, fleets, thrones, crowns: playthings of grown children.”
— Victor Hugo
“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”
— Victor Hugo
“Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.”
— Victor Hugo
“The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.”
— Victor Hugo
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
— Victor Hugo
“Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.”
— Victor Hugo
“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
— Victor Hugo