I leave you the best phrases of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), renowned French novelist and playwright of the Contemporary Age. Some of his best-known novels are Our Lady of Paris, Napoleon the Little, Les Miserables, Our Lady of Paris and The Orientals.
You may also be interested in these phrases of famous writers or these from Voltaire.
-There is nothing like a dream to create a future.
-Even the darkest night will come to an end and the Sun will rise.
-Suffering is worthy of respect. Submission is despicable.
-The world is not driven or dragged by machines, but by ideas.
-The acceptance of oppression by the one who is oppressed, becomes a kind of complicity.
-There is no army that can stop the force of an idea when it arrives on time.
-Many have enough strength, what they lack is will.
-All hell is contained is this word: loneliness.
-The smaller a heart is, the more hatred it holds.
-Change your opinion but keep your principles. Change your leaves but keep your roots.
-The best religion is tolerance.
-The truth is similar to the Sun. It cannot be seen but it makes everything see.
-Large hearts keep the secret of their greatness in the word persevere.
-The soul has illusions in the same way that the bird has wings. They are the ones who support it.
-It doesn't matter at all to die. But not living is intolerable.
-When a woman is talking to you, listen carefully to what she says with her eyes.
-There are neither bad men nor weeds, there are only bad cultivators.
-Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
-A smile is like the Sun that dissipates winter on the human face.
-The supreme happiness in life is to have the knowledge that you are loved for yourself, or more exactly, despite yourself.
-There are many names for the future. Unattainable is called for the weak. The unknown to the fearful. For the brave it is an opportunity.
-He who thinks well, speaks well.
-It is a strange thing how lightly bad men think that everything will turn out well.
-Only daring can progress be achieved.
-Love is similar to the tree, it bends by the force of its own weight, it takes root deeply within our being, and sometimes, among the ruins of a heart, it continues to green.
-With music it is possible to express what cannot be pronounced in words, but which cannot be silenced either.
-There are people who are bad because of their need to speak. They are like those fireplaces that soon consume the logs, they do not require much fuel and their fuel is others.
-At the moment when love is happy, the soul turns to sweetness and goodness.
-Animals belong to God. Bestiality belongs to man.
-To impute the revolution to the human race is to impute the tide to the waves.
-When the water does not flow, a swamp is formed. When the mind does not work a fool is created.
-Two poles have humility: one is true and the other is beautiful.
-Tears are the only way through which the eyes can see God.
-With work, life is sweetened. But sweets don't serve everyone.
-The hero has a dream: to be great next to everyone, and small next to his father.
"What a curious matter!" The first symptom of love in a young man is his shyness, in a young man his fearlessness.
-Love opens a parenthesis that marriage closes.
-The duty has an immense resemblance to the happiness of others.
-Man has his wings in love and his yoke in desire.
-When an infant destroys a toy, it seems as if it is looking for its soul.
-From volcanoes stones come out, men come out of revolutions.
-God is the fullness of all heaven. Love is the fullness of every man.
-The memory lives next to the remorse.
-Why will God put the best of all life at the beginning?
-Inspiration and genius could be said to be the same thing.
- Doing nothing makes children happy and the elderly unhappy.
-An old man is as in need of affection as Sol.
-A revolution is the larva of a civilization.
-A house without children is a hive without bees.
-Without the star of moral truth, the human soul is nothing more than a black night.
-By punishing an innocent we give birth to a wicked one.
-Just like a child plays with a knife, so a woman plays with her beauty. And it hurts.
-Being good is easy, being fair is difficult.
-The whole future is in the hands of the school teachers.
-Intelligence with little capacity are interested in extraordinary matters. High-capacity intelligences deal with simple matters.
-The masterpiece is a varied form of miracle.
-The fidelity of many men is often rooted in laziness. The fidelity of many women is often rooted in custom.
-There are no countries that are small. The greatness of a nation is not measured by the number of inhabitants. Just as the greatness of a man is not measured by his height.
-There are abysses that are good. They are those in which evil sinks.
-What is done to a child, is done to God.
-Who always insults me never offends me.
-The thought is nothing more than a simple breath. But a breath that makes the world shudder.
-There are men whose soul only serves to keep the body away from decomposition.
-All power is duty.
-It's better for me to be whistled for a good verse than to applaud me for a bad one.
-The human body is only appearance and hides the true reality. The reality of who we are is the soul.
-To save civilization is to save the life of a people.
-To be discussed is to be perceived.
- Life is so short, and we shorten it even more with our foolish way of wasting time.
-It feels immense sadness to see how nature speaks and mankind does not listen.
-Consciousness is the presence of divinity in man.
-The greatest force of all forces is an innocent heart.
-Traveling is being born and dying at every step.
-The mature age of youth is forty. Fifty is the youth of middle age.
-There are beautiful women, but not perfect women.
-God is the invisible evidence.
-Success is a disgusting business in the extreme. Its great resemblance to merit makes men fool themselves.
- Winning is a stupid matter without equal. True glory is born of convincing.
-A poet is a world imprisoned in a man.
-How to define an envious person? He is the ungrateful one who hates the light that illuminates and warms him.
-Music expresses that which cannot be said and that at the same time cannot be silenced.
-Curiosity is one of the forms of female courage.
-When the dictatorship is a fact, the revolution becomes a right.
-A mother's arms are made of tenderness.
- Putting everything in balance is good, putting everything in harmony is better.
-Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, just as there is room in the sky for all the stars.
-Rising from an error to the truth is strange and beautiful.
-Pain is a fruit. God doesn't make it grow into limbs too weak to bear.
-What is history? An echo of the past in the future.
-He never left without a book under his arm, and eventually came back with two.
-Loving another person is seeing the face of God.
-Not being heard is not a reason for silence.
-Loving or having loved is enough. Do not ask for more. There is no other pearl that can be found in the dark folds of life.
-Those who don't cry, don't see.
-Learning to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is pronounced is a spark.
-If I speak, I am doomed. If I remain silent, I am cursed.
-You who suffer because you love, you love even more. Dying for love is living according to that.
-Whoever opens the door of a school closes a prison.
-Nothing makes a man as adventurous as an empty pocket.
-A man is not lazy because he is absorbed in his thoughts. There are visible jobs and there are invisible jobs.
-He loved books because they are good and safe friends.
-A smart hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
-There is something much worse than a hell of suffering; one hell of boredom.
-Love is the folly of men, and the wisdom of God.
-I've been loving you a little more every minute of every morning.
-There is always more misery among the lower classes than humanity in the upper classes.
-Let's study the things that don't exist. They need to be understood, even if it's just to avoid them.
-It is not easy to keep silence when silence is a lie.
-Winter on my head, but eternal spring is inside my heart.
-Not seeing people allows us to imagine them perfectly.
-If you want to understand what revolution is, call it progress; And if you want to understand what progress is, call it tomorrow.
-How great it is, to be loved! But it is even greater, to love!
-If people don't love each other, I really don't see what the use of having a spring would be.
-Let's sacrifice a day to gain perhaps a whole life.
-There is a spectacle greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a spectacle greater than heaven, and that is the interior of the soul.
-Diamonds can only be found only in the darkness of the earth, and the truth in the darkness of the mind.
-When you find an idea in your mind you find it in everything.
-What they say about men eventually influences their lives, and especially their destinies, as much as what they do.
-Nobody loves light like the blind man.
-Love is the only future that God offers.
-Faith is necessary for men; and woe to him who believes in nothing.
-The trends have done more damage than the revolutions.
-Nothing is more imminent than the impossible… what we must always anticipate is the unforeseen.
-God knows better than we what we need.
-Life is a theater where there are few tickets practiced.
-A man who has only one eye is more incomplete than a blind man, since he knows what he needs.
-The truths of life do not allow us to forget.
- Curiosity is gluttonous. Seeing is devouring.
-The first glance of a soul that still does not know itself is like the dawn in the skies, it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
-A man without a woman is equal to a pistol without a trigger; the woman is the one who makes the man leave.
-It is from books that wise people get comfort from life's problems.
-The rich man's paradise is made from the poor man's hell.
-Life is the flower as love is the honey.
-A writer is a world enclosed in a person.
-The earth is a big piece of stupidity.
-The door of a doctor should always be closed, the door of a priest should always remain open.
-Lying little is impossible: he who lies, lies all the lie.
-A single drop of wine is enough to redden a full glass of water.
-Studying in Paris is like being born in Paris.
-We need those who pray constantly to compensate those who never pray.
-If you are a rock, be magnificent; if you are a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be loved.
-Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread.
-I think, and that's why I doubt.
-Our mind is filled with wealth for what we receive, and our heart for what we give.
-Go out into the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing like no one is listening, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.
-An educated man knows that he is ignorant.
-The wisdom of a man does not grow, but it matures.
-Religiously I am opposed to religion.
-Wisdom is the cure for the soul.
-It is thanks to suffering that human beings become angels.
-I don't like prosperity and wealth, especially that of other men.
-He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
-Adversity creates men, and prosperity creates monsters.
-We can resist the invasion of an army but we cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
-The quantity of a civilization is measured by the quality of its imagination.
-To have initiative is to do things well without being told.
-In each village there is a torch (the teacher) and an extinguisher (the priest).
-I am not interested in what Congress does, as long as it does not do it in the streets and scare the horses.
-The day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets open to trade and minds open to ideas.
-Those who live are those who fight.
-My tastes are aristocratic, and my actions are democratic.
-God created the flirt as soon as he created the fool.
-Mothers are most loved by the child who has caused them the most pain.
-I advance in life, I become simpler, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.