Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Clearly he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the gospels. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul. Victor Hugo, Les Miserables Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.” Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
