Victor Marie Hugo
France
26 Feb 1802 // 22 May 1885
Poet / Novelist / Playwrigh t /Essayist
26 Feb 1802 // 22 May 1885
Poet / Novelist / Playwrigh t /Essayist
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Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murders. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Habit is the nursery of errors
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees
At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays