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Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist widely considered one of the greatest French writers. His best-known works — *Les Misérables* and *The Hunchback of Notre-Dame* — are enduring classics that blend sweeping narrative with powerful social conscience. Hugo was also an outspoken advocate for social justice and human rights.

“The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.”

— Victor Hugo

Love

All Quotes by Victor Hugo

“As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.”

— Victor Hugo

Nature

“There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.”

— Victor Hugo

Love

“Change your opinions, keep to your principles change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo

Change

“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.”

— Victor Hugo

God

“All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

Power

“To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.”

— Victor Hugo

God

“I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.”

— Victor Hugo

Men

“Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.”

— Victor Hugo

Art

“Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

Time

“Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.”

— Victor Hugo

Happiness

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

— Victor Hugo

Future

“Toleration is the best religion.”

— Victor Hugo

Best

“He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.”

— Victor Hugo

Morning

“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”

— Victor Hugo

Future

“Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.”

— Victor Hugo

Education

“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

Great

“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”

— Victor Hugo

Wisdom

“I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!”

— Victor Hugo

Art

“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”

— Victor Hugo

God

“Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.”

— Victor Hugo

God