Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time.

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!

Poetry contains philosophy as the soul contains reason.

Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

To have lied is to have suffered.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps