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Quotes from Victor Hugo

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.
~ Victor Hugo
Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.
~ Victor Hugo
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
~ Victor Hugo
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
~ Victor Hugo
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
~ Victor Hugo
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
~ Victor Hugo
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
~ Victor Hugo
Conscience is God present in man.
~ Victor Hugo
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
~ Victor Hugo
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
~ Victor Hugo
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.
~ Victor Hugo
Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
~ Victor Hugo
Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.
~ Victor Hugo
Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
~ Victor Hugo
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
~ Victor Hugo
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
~ Victor Hugo
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
~ Victor Hugo
When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.
~ Victor Hugo
Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.
~ Victor Hugo
Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.
~ Victor Hugo
Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.
~ Victor Hugo
I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
~ Victor Hugo
Taste is the common sense of genius.
~ Victor Hugo
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
~ Victor Hugo