Victor Hugo
Les Miserables
Sayings by Victor Hugo
Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
To forget is to sleep.
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, a rather too scarce a good thing.
The human soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The healthy stomach is a good cook.
No army can stop an idea whose time has come.
The word 'love' is not a verb.
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.
There are no such things as small countries. The greatness of a people is no more determined by the number of its inhabitants than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
When a man knows how to love, he knows how to live.
The soul's darkest night is not the one before death, but the one before birth.
What makes night within us may leave stars.
The more you are in love, the more you are in danger.
The intelligent man finds everything absurd.
The greatest strength is gentleness.
If I am to die, I will die laughing.
The most beautiful of all things is a beautiful woman with a beautiful mind.
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.