“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

— Victor Hugo, "Thoughts", Postscriptum de ma vie

About Victor Hugo

1802 – 1885

French poet and novelist, author of "Les Misérables" and "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame".

“Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.”

“When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.”

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”

“It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.”

“Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.”

“To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things!”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”