Author Name

Victor Hugo

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Author : Victor Hugo

Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

Author : Victor Hugo

No one can keep a secret better than a child.

Author : Victor Hugo

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

Author : Victor Hugo

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Author : Victor Hugo

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Author : Victor Hugo

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Author : Victor Hugo

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

Author : Victor Hugo

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

Author : Victor Hugo

Conscience is God present in man.