Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

Victor Hugo

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

Victor Hugo

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Victor Hugo

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

Victor Hugo

We are for religion against the religions.

Victor Hugo

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

Victor Hugo

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.

Victor Hugo

Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Victor Hugo

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.

Herbie Hancock

So in other words, we were constantly challenged to grow, and thats what a master does.

Henry David Thoreau

This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.

Jill Scott

I've learned that friendship does not equate business, business does not equate friendship.

Jessica Chastain

If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.

Jean de La Fontaine

He knows the universe and does not know himself.

Godfried Danneels

When someone is HIV-positive and his partner says, I want to have sexual relations with you, he doesn't have to do that. But when he does, he has to use a condom.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.