The ox suffers, the cart complains.

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• Victor Hugo:

  One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

• Victor Hugo:

  Taste is the common sense of genius.

• Victor Hugo:

  The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

• Victor Hugo:

  A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns y

• Victor Hugo:

  Stupidity talks, vanity acts.

• Victor Hugo:

  Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

• Victor Hugo:

  He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

• Victor Hugo:

  The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.

• Victor Hugo:

  I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed

• Victor Hugo:

  Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do n