Here is true immorality: ignorance and stupidity; the devil is nothing but this. His name is Legion.
Gustave FlaubertWomen want you to deceive them: they force you to, and if you resist, they blame you.
Gustave FlaubertOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!
Gustave FlaubertOne arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave Flaubert