Victor Hugo

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

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

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

To think is of itself to be useful it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

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

Conscience is God present in man.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.