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Victor Hugo Quotes about Wisdom - Page 3

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”, p.21

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

Victor Hugo (2008). “The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.236, ReadHowYouWant.com

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.726, Wordsworth Editions

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

Victor Hugo's ppening address to the Peace Congress in Paris, August 21, 1849.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

Victor Hugo, Sir Lascelles Wraxall (1984). “Les Miserables”, Hippocrene Books

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2209, BookCaps Study Guides

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.

Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.134

Liberation is not deliverance.

Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.121, My Ebook Publishing House

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Victor Hugo (2008). “Things Seen and Essays”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.750, Wordsworth Editions