Favorite quotes

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." Galileo Galilei

 

"A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it". Victor Hugo

 

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

 

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters". Victor Hugo

 

"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".
Victor Hugo

 

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Victor Hugo

 

"Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?" Victor Hugo

 

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone. Victor Hugo

 

Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo

 

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

 

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
Victor Hugo

 

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

 

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life". Victor Hugo

 

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo

 

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

 

t is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo

 

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Victor Hugo

 

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

 

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo

 

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Victor Hugo