Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this. — Gustave Flaubert. French novelist (1821–1880)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.