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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.

“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”

— Victor Hugo

Great

All Quotes by Victor Hugo

“Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.”

— Victor Hugo

Intelligence

“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?”

— Victor Hugo

Men

“Forty is the old age of youth fifty the youth of old age.”

— Victor Hugo

Age

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

— Victor Hugo

Beauty

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

— Victor Hugo

Future

“Joy's smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”

— Victor Hugo

Smile

“The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.”

— Victor Hugo

Men

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

— Victor Hugo

Men

“Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.”

— Victor Hugo

Men

“There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.”

— Victor Hugo

Time

“To love beauty is to see light.”

— Victor Hugo

Beauty

“Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.”

— Victor Hugo

Good

“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”

— Victor Hugo

Happiness

“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”

— Victor Hugo

Wisdom

“Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.”

— Victor Hugo

Imagination

“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.”

— Victor Hugo

Men

“Conscience is God present in man.”

— Victor Hugo

God

“Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

— Victor Hugo

Time

“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

“A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”

— Victor Hugo

Inspirational