Quotes about Ethics
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.
— Victor Hugo
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
— Victor Hugo
To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.
— Victor Hugo
He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.
— Victor Hugo
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
— Victor Hugo
When a man does wrong, he should do all the wrong he can; it is madness to stop half-way in crime!
— Victor Hugo
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
— Victor Hugo
Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.
— Victor Hugo
any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.
— Victor Hugo
Il y a des gens qui paieraient pour se vendre
— Victor Hugo
Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.
— Victor Hugo