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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Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled
Art needs no spur beyond itself
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters
A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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."
Essays
Essays