Marius set out at his accustomed hour for the Luxembourg. He met Courfeyrac on the way and pretended not to see him. Courfeyrac said later to his friends: 'I've just seen Marius's new hat and suit wit...
After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had laboured so much upon...
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
The episcopal palace of D—— adjoins the hospital.
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought,
Let us never weary of repeating, that to think first of the disinherited and sorrowful classes; to relieve, ventilate, enlighten, and love them; to enlarge their horizon to a magnificent extent; to la...
If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun, to be in full possession of viral force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valia...
Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely ident...
As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.
Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars.
Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.
Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.
People do not read stupidities with impunity.
Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. Knowledge is a viaticum. Though is a prime necessity; truth is nourishment, like wheat. A reasoning faculty, deprived...
Homo homini monstrum
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the sam...
Hence, that crown is the money of hell.
Among all these passionate hearts and all these undoubting minds there was one skeptic. How did he happen to be there? From juxtaposition. The name of this skeptic was Grantaire, and he usually signed...
Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.