#ow

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. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#creditor #dignity #master #only #owns

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

Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#come #else #idea #nothing #powerful

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

— Victor Hugo

#every #every man #god #hope #man

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#aware #fact #ignorant #knows #man

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#banks #before #changing #flowed #i

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#boat #current #does #flowing #going

To contemplate is to look at shadows. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#look #shadows

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

— Victor Hugo

#cases #god #itself #striving #think

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#begin #compliment #friends #growing #growing old