Victor Hugo quotes - page 14

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. (Victor Hugo)
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil! View quote
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. View quote
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Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter. View quote
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The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate. View quote
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Liberation is not deliverance. View quote
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. View quote
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Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. View quote
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. View quote
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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. View quote
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But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. (Victor Hugo)
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. View quote
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I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. View quote
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Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God. View quote
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic. View quote
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Many great actions are committed in small struggles. View quote
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range. View quote
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When liberty returns, I will return. View quote
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. View quote
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. View quote
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing. (Victor Hugo)
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height. View quote
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The learned man knows that he is ignorant. View quote
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Genius: the superhuman in man. View quote
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It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her. View quote
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