Quotes by Hugo, Victor

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no gran >>

Progress is the life-style of man. The general life of the human race >>

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate >>

Quotations about Saints

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. >>

We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. I will be >>

Saints are simply men and women who have fulfilled their natural oblig >>

A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement -- in a word, with more renunciation than you care for -- and so you flee the contagion.

Hugo, Victor