Victor Hugo ( 10 of 71 )
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
People do not lack strength; they lack will.
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks.)
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
I was always a lover of soft-winged things.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.
