"It is most pleasant to commit a..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“My greatness does not extend to this shelf.”

“Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.”

“As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.”

“It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one”

“But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.”

“But I say to you, my friends, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good-will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize.”

“There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man’s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.”

“Man is bound to lie about himself”

“Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.”