Here we have put together a list of the 25 best quotes by Victor Hugo.
Top 25 Victor Hugo Quotes and Sayings
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labor and there is invisible labor.
People do not lack strength, they lack will.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.
You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.
Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Not being heard is no reason for silence.
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart in ruin. The inexplicable fact is that the blinder it is, the more tenacious it is. It is never stronger than when it is completely unreasonable.
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
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