Quotes by Hugo, Victor

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two f >>

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. >>

We are the children of our own deeds. >>

Quotations about Duty

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. >>

Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together >>

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more. >>

It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.

Hugo, Victor