1,711 Quotes by Victor Hugo

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

A ceux qui ignorent, enseignez leur le plus de chose que vous pourrez ; la société est coupable de ne pas donner l'instruction gratis ; elle répond de la nuit qu'elle produit. Cette âme est pleine d'ombre, le péché s'y commet. Le coupable n'est pas celui qui fait le péché, mais celui qui fait l'ombre.

Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

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

Do not inquire he name if him who asks a shelter of you. The very man who's embarrassed by his name is the one who needs shelter

Les contre-façons du passé prennent de faux noms et s'appellent volontiers l'avenir. Ce revenant, le passé, est sujet à falsifier son passe-port. Mettons-nous au fait du piège. Défions-nous. Le passé a un visage, la superstition, et un masque, l'hypocrisie. Dénonçons le visage et arrachons le masque.