3 December 2020 Victor Hugo A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Because one doesn’t like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo 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.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo 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.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
