Gustave Flaubert
France
12 Dec 1821 // 8 May 1880
Writer
12 Dec 1821 // 8 May 1880
Writer
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Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in
How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act
As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything
Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois
The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry
I believe that if one always looked at the sky, one would end up with wings
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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