Victor Hugo Quotes (181 quotes)

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„Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.“
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„But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.“
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„No one can keep a secret better than a child.“
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„The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.“
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„Genius: the superhuman in man.“
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„Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.“
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„One believes others will do what he will do to himself.“
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„A war between Europeans is a civil war.“
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„When liberty returns, I will return.“
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„Taste is the common sense of genius.“
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„One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.“
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„Despotism is a long crime.“
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„The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.“
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„Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.“
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„I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.“
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„Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.“
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„One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.“
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„I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.“
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„Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.“
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„Habit is the nursery of errors.“
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Victor Hugo
Author born: February 26, 1802
Author died: May 22, 1885
Nationality: French
Author Profession: Author

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