Quotes by 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.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

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.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

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