Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.


Victor Hugo

896

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.


Victor Hugo

896

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity in a girl boldness.


Victor Hugo

896

There are fathers who do not love their children there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.


Victor Hugo

896

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.


Victor Hugo

896

To love beauty is to see light.


Victor Hugo

896

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.


Victor Hugo

896

To love another person is to see the face of God.


Victor Hugo

896

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


Victor Hugo

896

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.


Victor Hugo

896

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.


Victor Hugo

896

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


Victor Hugo

896

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.


Victor Hugo

896

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


Victor Hugo

896

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.


Victor Hugo

896

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


Victor Hugo

896

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.


Victor Hugo

896

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

896

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


Victor Hugo

896

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.


Victor Hugo

896

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