<ul><li>"The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves."</li><li>"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."</li><li>"Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise."</li><li>"Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give."</li><li>"The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness."</li></ul>

Quotes About Love

<ul><li>"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."</li><li>"There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."</li></ul>

Quotes About Culture

<ul><li>"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body; the soul is on its knees."</li><li>"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."</li><li>"It is by suffering that human beings become angels."</li><li>"It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."</li><li>"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."</li><li>"Not being heard is no reason for silence."</li><li>"Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time."</li><li>"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."</li></ul>

Quotes About Life Lessons

<ul><li>"A study can be made against invasion by an army. No stand can be made against invasion by an idea."</li><li>"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."</li><li>"He who opens a school door closes a prison."</li><li>"If you wish to understand what revolution is, call it progress, and if you wish to understand what progress is, call it tomorrow."</li><li>"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."</li><li>"Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come."</li></ul>

Quotes About Ideas and Intelligence

<ul><li>"A great artist is a great man in a great child."</li><li>"A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly in them."</li><li>"Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men."</li><li>"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."</li><li>"When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.</li></ul>

Quotes About Family Life

<ul><li>"Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her. Still, she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings."</li><li>"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."</li><li>"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."</li><li>"The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal."</li></ul>

Quotes About Hope

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Famous Victor Hugo Quotes

Victor Hugo was a French writer and one of the greatest novelists of the Romantic movement. Explore some of the most memorable Victor Hugo quotes.