#on

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

— Victor Hugo

#face #god #love #person #see

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#done #fashions #harm #more #revolutions

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#brother #father #friend #heart #heaven

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

He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#busy #busy life #carries #day #every

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dictatorship #fact #revolution #right

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

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#elevates #god #limits #man #narrow

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#children #does #fathers #grandfather #grandson

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

— Victor Hugo

#god #like #no reason #reason #things