Quotes by Hugo, Victor

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. >>

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we >>

One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and inv >>

Quotations about Mistakes

Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it u >>

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. >>

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever >>

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor