Quotes by Victor Hugo
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

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

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

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

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.

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

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

The wise man does not grow old, but ripens.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.