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Victor Hugo Quotes about Wisdom - Page 4

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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Wisdom, Men, Soul

Victor Hugo (2016). “The Man Who Laughs”, p.303, Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Wisdom, Stars, Night

Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

Wisdom, Philosopher, Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.2609, Delphi Classics

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Wisdom, Thinking, Labour

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.453, Modern Library

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Wisdom, Men, Names

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2091, BookCaps Study Guides

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Wisdom, Common Sense, Genius

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

Wisdom, Children, Keeping Secrets

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.380, Wordsworth Editions

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Wisdom, Army, Ideas

Victor Hugo (1909). “The History of a Crime”

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

Wisdom, Men, Effort

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

We are for religion against the religions.

Wisdom, Les Miserable

Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.352, Wordsworth Editions

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Wisdom, Errors, Way

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Wisdom, Wicked, Succeed

Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.135, Modern Library

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

Wisdom, Men, Brain

Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill.

Wisdom, War, Half

Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.240, BookCaps Study Guides

We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks.

Dream, Wisdom, Men

Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

Wisdom, Memories, Moving

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6158, Delphi Classics

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Wisdom, Genius, Infinite

"William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

Wisdom, Mean, Going Away

Victor Hugo (1862). “Les Miserables”, p.393

We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.

Wisdom, Hands, Monsters

"Ninety-Three: A Historical Novel".

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Wisdom, Prayer, Views

Victor Hugo (1862). “Cosette”, p.135

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