#iv

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#about #enough #give #go #goes

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

— Victor Hugo

#face #human #human face #laughter #sun

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

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#doing #doing the right thing #initiative #right #right thing

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civilization #european #exists #name #now

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#amnesty #both #both sides #give #good

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

— Victor Hugo

#consistent #double #freedom #goal #logical

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dawn #does #eclipse #endless #entitled

A war between Europeans is a civil war. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#civil #civil war #europeans #war

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers? ↗

— Victor Hugo

#between #brothers #civil #civil war #does