But, reverend master, it is not sufficient to pass one's life, one must earn the means for life. Author: Victor Hugo Copy Quote More from Victor Hugo “where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.” “Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.” “It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffe…” “Prima della rivoluzione, quando un gran personaggio, un maresciallo di Francia,…”