#ace

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#accomplished #daily #go #great #laboriously

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#face #human #human face #laughter #sun

To love another person is to see the face of God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#face #god #love #person #see

The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#been #called #handled #human #human race

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #derived #divine #grace #human

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#adorable #dawn #grace #happy #joined

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#book #every #great #great ideas #human

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#crime #peace #virtue #war

Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#style #subject #substance #surface #unceasingly

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#fall #frailty #grace #her #much