Quote #102

What an elder sees sitting, the young can't see standing.

More from Gustave Flaubert

  1. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
  2. As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
  3. There is no truth. There is only perception.
  4. The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you f…
  5. The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
  6. Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.
  7. The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.
  8. My deplorable mania for analysis exhausts me. I doubt everything, even my doubt.

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