Quote by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

• A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

• 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.

• Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

• To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

• Of all lies, art is the least untrue.