Wisdom Quote by Victor Hugo — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was just. I did right. Now if I were not severe towards myself, all I have justly done would become injustice. Should I spare myself more than others? No. What! if I should be prompt only to punish others and not myself, I should be a wretched indeed! - Javert to M. Madeleine”

“Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'”

“She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world:”

“Love is the only future God offers.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”

“I woke up after realizing that I didn't even exist. But what I woke up to wasn't a dream. It was reality.”

“FOCUS = Follow On Course Until Successful.”

“A world in the hand is worth two in the bush.”

“A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.”

“We make Idols of our concepts, but Wisdom is born of wonder”

“To be productive, effective and to live a life of understanding and wisdom is not to waste time”