“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
“Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.”
— Victor Hugo
“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”
— 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
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
— 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
“It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.”
— Victor Hugo
“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”
— Victor Hugo
“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”
— Victor Hugo
“One can no more pray too much than love too much.”
— Victor Hugo
“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”
— Victor Hugo
“Glory, ambition, armies, fleets, thrones, crowns: playthings of grown children.”
— 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
“To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.”
— Victor Hugo