By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

By : Victor Hugo

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

By : Victor Hugo

Despotism is a long crime.

By : Victor Hugo

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

By : Victor Hugo

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

By : Victor Hugo

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

By : Victor Hugo

Genius: the superhuman in man.

By : Victor Hugo

We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

By : Victor Hugo

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

By : Victor Hugo

Taste is the common sense of genius.

By : Victor Hugo

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

By : Victor Hugo

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

By : Victor Hugo