The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. — Gustave Flaubert. French novelist (1821–1880) Democracy
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.